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.

  • @bric@lemm.eeEnglish
    11•10 months ago

    Separation of church and state is always a good thing, I’m not arguing against that, but this feels like a whole different level. If anything, this is the state taking an active role in changing the rules of the church. That’s not separation, that’s state sponsored atheism

    • @gnygnygny@lemm.eeEnglish
      3•10 months ago

      The public schools are the one from the state. Those one are separate from the church. But everybody can go tothe private schools those can be religious or not.

      That’s secularism, not atheism.