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.

  • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    France has never once, in the history of the country, ever given half a shit about doing the right thing or not disenfranchising people.

    They have a very cool history but France is a shit show top to bottom.

    Basically all of their governing tenets only exist to prevent the French from just living in a state of constant revolution.

    • Guntrigger@feddit.chEnglish
      1·
      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
        1·
        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.

      • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        Never said it was and never would. Every country has its crazy shit. France’s is just very visible.

        As an American, I can relate to that.