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
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    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.