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.

  • EvilZionistEatingChildren@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2339·
    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.

    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3314·
      10 months ago

      this ban is as dumb as banning heavy metal, dungeons and dragons, skateboards, backwards baseball caps, etc etc

      it’s all just trying to look tough enough to court right wing racists on targets too vulnerable to fight back.

      if you want to protect vulnerable young girls, you don’t start by ostracising them from the community.

    • jalatani@lemm.eeEnglish
      131·
      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
      1816·
      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.