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.

  • Guntrigger@feddit.chEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s funny that the French are romanticised as a revolutionary people, always ready to stand up to the man and fight for the people.

    They’ve probably just been shit on by their own government more that most other nations, so they’ve reached that tipping point of revolution more than anyone else.

    • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The French are the ones doing a lot of the shitting on themselves. The Reign of Terror wasn’t a government initiative.