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.

    • Guntrigger@feddit.chEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’m interested to know if there’s any kind of religious education in the French school system?

      In the UK I was in a CofE school (Christian) but our Religious Education classes taught about all religions pretty equally.

      • セリャスト@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        My middle school did too but I was in a private school, I don’t know if it is part of public school. Most of it was me arguing with my religious teacher tho