The education minister says female Muslim students will not be allowed to wear the loose-fitting robe.

Pupils will be banned from wearing abayas, loose-fitting full-length robes worn by some Muslim women, in France’s state-run schools, the education minister has said.

The rule will be applied as soon as the new school year starts on 4 September.

France has a strict ban on religious signs in state schools and government buildings, arguing that they violate secular laws.

Wearing a headscarf has been banned since 2004 in state-run schools.

  • @funkless_eck@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    -8•1 year ago

    name a video game that doesn’t have some element of religion in it. pac man? ghosts = belief in afterlife. space invaders? I’d call “belief in aliens” a religious belief of sorts. bubble bobble? maybe?

    you also gotta reprint every single piece of American paper money.

    what about my tarot card collection? you gonna lock me in jail because I think the art is cool?

    what about how I listen to Bach or Mozart in the bath?

    you gonna arrest me for saying “Jesus fucking christ” when my cat brings up a hairball?

    I also enjoy “what we do in the shadows”, Yellowjackets, home alone, lord of the rings, dune… all banned by you.

    Even chess has a bishop, king and queen…

    There’s no need to be a redditeur about it, nearly everything is a religious experience or adjacent, and I say that as a secular person and atheist myself.