France to ban female students from wearing abayas in state schools
France to ban female students from wearing abayas in state schools
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.
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So men are allowed to?
It's not religious male clothing, so probably yeah.
Noone is forcing them to wear them so I don't see how there'd be a need to forbid them from wearing abayas.
Great so one side is telling women what they must do and the other side is telling women what they must not do.
One wants women to be part of society and have the opportunity to choose their own paths and the other will kill them if they dare to fall in love with someone not chosen by her parents.
They must learn our freedom loving ways by coercion!
Choose their own path by checks notes telling them what they can't wear.
Yeah you basically just repeated your first argument. Good job.
It's a good argument that you've failed to address adequately. Seems worth the repeating.