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.

    • セリャスト@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      139·
      10 months ago

      Oh really? Let’s ban murder. Is it as opressive as if we made murdering ppl mandatory? Remember that people’s rights depend on other’s obligations.

      • MataVatnik@lemmy.worldEnglish
        73·
        10 months ago

        Hyperbolic bad faith argument. A person should have a right to choose the clothes they wear. Maybe this school should stick to uniforms if certain articles of clothing are so problematic.

        • セリャスト@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          13·
          10 months ago

          It is not one school, it is all public achools in the country. You can’t defend the right to choose clothes in one sentence and say they should switch to uniforms in the other

    • EvilZionistEatingChildren@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2036·
      10 months ago

      No it’s not. making something mandatory for a group of people makes that group of people well separated from the rest. here is exactly opposite : they are trying to make them look like anyone else.

      • jalatani@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        10 months ago

        “trying to make them” is a problematic phrase and why this doesn’t make sense. Nobody should be “made” to do anything, if people are choosing to look different they should be free to do so.

      • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1812·
        10 months ago

        You know what makes everyone look alike? A niqab.

        Someone call the Taliban and let them know they’re defenders of freedom.

          • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
            96·
            10 months ago

            Plastic surgery does not make everyone look alike. That’s a silly thing to say lol

            Also you’re missing the highly relevant point that plastic surgery is not compulsory

            • EvilZionistEatingChildren@lemmy.worldEnglish
              75·
              10 months ago

              Well i made a silly argument to show you how I feel about yours lol.

              Nobody is imposing a cloth on anyone, and even less a religious one. So you can’t use niqqab in your argument against me because that’s literally what i am against!

              You could say for example that’s a cultural thing, and forbidding it would somehow restrict the minority. But then, it’s only public schools, the law doesn’t care (me neither) about adults wearing it outside. (I don’t know why I am arguing with myself on your behalf 🤔)

              What it does care about, is to prevent community bubbles forming within groups of children. Which i totally support.