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.

  • Lmaydev@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m not very comfortable with these type of bans.

    People say women shouldn’t be forced to wear certain items of clothing and deal with it by forcing them to wear different items of clothing.

    Doesn’t seem very productive.

    I always think of that meme with a women in full body coverings and a women wearing a bikini and they’re both thinking about how awful it is that society pressures women to dress like the other.