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France to ban female students from wearing abayas in state schools (www.bbc.com)

submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

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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.

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[-] punseye@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I think some are forgetting, these bans are in schools, outside these schools you can wear whatever you want

[-] Guntrigger@feddit.ch 8 points 1 year ago

I don't think that makes it any better somehow.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can't just let women wear what they want. Clearly lacking a penis makes them incapable of deciding what clothes to wear.

[-] felykiosa@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

It s not only female its everyone . No one can were religion cloth. That just normal you are in a public place .

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[-] torpak@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago

I'm an atheist and consider all organized religion evil. But restricting what people can wear in school (apart from covering their genitals and not restricting movement or vision to the point that it hinders education) is indefensible.

[-] duviobaz@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Even if one despises religion above all, as one should, there is no sufficient reason to ban this type of stuff.

On the other side, it is time to give these morons back what they have brought upon others and thus deserve.

[-] 0ddysseus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Organized religion and their tools and symbols of opressiin have no place in modern society. The enlightenment is 300 years old now and we still have whackos like all the Americans in this thread talking about "religion is freedom". Its not freedom, its a fucking lie and it exists to control and oppress.

Vive La France, bring on more of this

To paraphrase: humanity be free when the last stone of the last church falls upon the last priest.

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