France’s education minister has announced a ban on long robes in classrooms starting with the new school year, saying the garments worn mainly by Muslims are testing secularism in the nation’s schools
FILE - Newly named Education Minister Gabriel Attal arrives to attend the weekly cabinet meeting after a cabinet reshuffle, Friday, July 21, 2023 at the Elysee Palace in Paris. France's education minister announced on Monday, Aug. 28, 2023 that long robes in classrooms would be banned starting with the new school year, saying that secularism in the nation's schools is being"tested" via the garments, worn mainly by Muslims.
“Our schools are continually tested. We know that,” Attal said at a news conference a week ahead of the start of the school year. He said that the wearing of abayas and khamis, a “new phenomenon,” has recently grown, and must be met with a firm response to tackle what sometimes amounts to “infringements, attempts at destabilization.”
A 2021 law against what officials refer to as “separatism” was aimed at further strengthening the French value of secularism, including among public servants. It gave new teeth to detection of signs of Islamic radicalism, notably by strengthening oversight of mosques, schools and sports clubs.“For me, the abaya is not a religious garb. It’s a kind of fashion,” Abdallah Zekri, a leader of the French Council for the Muslim Faith, said on the news station BFMTV. The abaya is “a long and ample robe.
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