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.

  • gnygnygny@lemm.eeEnglish
    84·
    1 year ago

    It’s not insane, but this separation has been done in 1905. In France the state is separated from the church (and by extension the religious). It’s not radical it takes roots in the principle of equality.

    • bric@lemm.eeEnglish
      111·
      1 year 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
        32·
        1 year 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.

    • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      I don’t see it as separation. Requiring something religious or banning something religious are both state mandates. It’s moreso a strict secular enforcement.