He French Minister of Education, gabriel attalhas announced this Sunday that it will ban the wearing the abayathe Islamic female tunic, in the country’s schools. “Secularism it’s not a restrictionbut a freedom“Attal declared in an interview with the French channel TF1, where he spoke of a rule”necessary and fair“Although he has not given an exact date, the minister has confirmed that he intends to discuss the matter with the educational managers before the start of the school year on September 4.
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“We will no longer be able to wear the abaya to the school. The directors of the schools are, on many occasions, on the front lines of these problems, these issues of secularism, and we have to help,” he added. “I want to provide you with some clear rules at the national level in the coming days,” Attal said about the ban on wearing this full-body tunic minus the headalthough on many occasions women complete it with a handkerchief to cover themselves practically completely.
attacks on secularism
This announcement comes a few days after the publication, both in ‘Le Figaro’ and in other media, of the conclusions of a note from state services that reveals an explosion of what they describe as “attacks on secularism” in schools. Thus, they carried out 4,710 reports in this regard during the 2022-2023 school year, compared to 2,167 in the 2021-2022 academic year.