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

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      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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        That’s not how it’s actually enforced. This is making new laws and regulations picking on a minority.

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        Banning clothes in public space is fascism.

        I guess then we will force them to wear a special star and send them in special “protective” camps?

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            I’m French. But I know what fascism or racism are so I understand it can be a bit unsettling.

            Et si tu me crois pas à cause de l’anglais on peut faire le débat en français, mais j’avoue que parler avec des fascistes ignorants m’emmerde pas mal.

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      It seems like any religious emblems or clothing aren’t allowed in public schools, not so much that they can’t wear what they want.

      I think it’s fair enough, it’s pretty obvious that religion and education are incompatible in the modern age. Anyone who disagrees with that is a “religious” person who’s never read a holy book.

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        I am a militant atheist and disagree with this decision completely. Freedom means nothing if it doesn’t include the freedom to make bad decisions.

        Oh just to be clear: Jesus was talking to Satan not the Holy Ghost and Allah doesn’t exist.

        There, the two unforgivable sins of the two major ones. I don’t much care for people claiming to be atheists without backing it up.

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            Just because I am an atheist does not mean I am against people having religion by law. I would prefer that no one has religion by choice. Just like I would prefer everyone to have healthy lifestyles. Just like I would prefer if we all stopped listening to rap-rock.

            There is a difference between what I wish and what I think should be lawful.

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      They literally ban ALL forms of religious depictions in France. Women just get forced, by a religion, to wear specific clothes to adhere to arbitrary standards set by some old dead dude(s). This is super par for the course and makes a lot of sense for them. The only thing oppressive here is the religion that forces women to wear shit to fit some ideals/standards, especially children who don’t know any better and are forced into it/don’t have a concept of doing anything else.

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        To stop women from being forced to do something by the dead we force them to do something by the living. Makes perfect sense.

        I once pulled a gun on someone and ordered them to be free.