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.

  • bouh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    74·
    10 months ago

    Protecting women by telling them how to dress. That feels very much like 19th century.

    You understand the dress is not even religious?

    • DarthBueller@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      10 months ago

      What percentage of husbands/street enforcers will beat her if she doesn’t wear it? Where do those cultural norms of modesty come from, pray tell?