France to ban college students from carrying abayas in state faculties

AFP

France will ban college students from carrying abayas in state-run faculties, its training minister mentioned forward of the back-to-school season.

“I have decided that the abaya could no longer be worn in schools,” Education Minister Gabriel Attal mentioned in an interview with TV channel TF1.

“When you walk into a classroom, you shouldn’t be able to identify the pupils’ religion just by looking at them,” he mentioned.

France has enforced a strict ban on non secular indicators in state faculties for the reason that nineteenth Century.

In 2004, it banned headscarves in faculties and handed a ban on full-face veils in public in 2010, angering some in its 5 million-strong Muslim neighborhood.