French Education Minister Gabriel Attal announced this Sunday that he will ban the use of the abaya, the Islamic women’s tunic, in schools in the country.
“Secularism is freedom, not restriction”In an interview with French channel TF1, Attal explained that he was talking about a “necessary and fair” rule. While he did not give an exact date, he confirmed that he plans to discuss the matter with education officials before the start of the school year on September 4.
“We will no longer be able to wear a coat to go to school. School principals are often on the front of tackling these problems. we need to help secularism“, added.
Regarding the ban on wearing this tunic, Attal said, “I would like to present you clear rules at the national level in the coming days.” covers the entire body except the headhowever, in most cases women supplement this with a handkerchief to cover themselves almost completely.
This announcement came just days after the results of a memo by government agencies describing the explosion in schools, which were described as “attacks on secularism”, were published in both ‘Le Figaro’ and other media. So they were made 4,710 reports on this topic during the course In the 2022-2023 school year, compared to 2,167 in the 2021-2022 school year.