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[-] electrogamerman@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

Well, if you have read the article, you should have noticed the girls are also covering their heads

[-] Hillock@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Where in the article is it mentioning that they covered their head? Do you mean the picture? They aren't even showacsing an abaya in the picture. Some of the girls are wearing sweaters and long sleeved shirts. And the head is covered by a headscarf. Yes, it will be very difficult to find any depiction of people wearing an abaya without a headscarf because it's mostly worn by muslims and they will cover their head with an additional headscarf. Just as it will be very rare to find any clothing displayed by muslim women without them covering their head.

At the end of August, the education minister announced that pupils would be banned from wearing the loose-fitting full-length robes

That is how they defined the abaya. A loose-fitting full-length robe. There is no mentioning of covering the head. The abaya is no more a religious clothing than any "church clothes" are. It's like black ties that are worn at funerals, like white button down shirts worn by certain missionaries. These items see use outside of their religious areas and so to abayas. They are worn to many occasions and not explictly religious.

[-] electrogamerman@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

You are also assuming they are banning Abayas, are you not? They never explicitly said it, nor its mentioned in the article.

[-] Hillock@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

No I am not assuming it literally says so. They banned the Abaya starting this year. The headscarf ban and stricter enforcing of religious symbols was back in 2004.

The French education minister has said that nearly 300 pupils arrived at school on Monday wearing the abaya, the long Muslim robe which was banned in schools last week.

Yes, it is very hard to differentiate between cultural and religious clothings in the Arabic world. And that's why banning the hardscarf while controversial is still supported by most. But things are starting to get ridiculous and is closer to "banning what is different".

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