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.

    • Flyswat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I don’t deny that there are occurrences where some girls are forced. What about the 95% others?

      You can’t put forth a law punishing the majority for a “likely”. What happened to the “Liberté Egalité Fraternité” which this liberticide law is obviously trampling?

      The population has been fed the islamophobic narrative long enough to have such laws pass without anybody thinking about how ridiculous they are (replace hijab/abaya with dreadlocks or other piece of clothing… What do other people care?). The divide is so deep and constantly maintained by the politicians who, since they find no real answers the actual problems plaguing the day to day life of citizen, prefer to turn them against each other: divide to better rule.

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        France has never once, in the history of the country, ever given half a shit about doing the right thing or not disenfranchising people.

        They have a very cool history but France is a shit show top to bottom.

        Basically all of their governing tenets only exist to prevent the French from just living in a state of constant revolution.

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            Never said it was and never would. Every country has its crazy shit. France’s is just very visible.

            As an American, I can relate to that.

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      name a video game that doesn’t have some element of religion in it. pac man? ghosts = belief in afterlife. space invaders? I’d call “belief in aliens” a religious belief of sorts. bubble bobble? maybe?

      you also gotta reprint every single piece of American paper money.

      what about my tarot card collection? you gonna lock me in jail because I think the art is cool?

      what about how I listen to Bach or Mozart in the bath?

      you gonna arrest me for saying “Jesus fucking christ” when my cat brings up a hairball?

      I also enjoy “what we do in the shadows”, Yellowjackets, home alone, lord of the rings, dune… all banned by you.

      Even chess has a bishop, king and queen…

      There’s no need to be a redditeur about it, nearly everything is a religious experience or adjacent, and I say that as a secular person and atheist myself.