Yara, a 15-year-old student at a school in Lyon, southwest France, told the Agence-France Presse news agency that she does not consider the abaya a form of religious dress. “They say that the ...

France to ban the wearing of abayas in schools, fueling accusations of Islamophobia By Rob Picheta , Heather Law , Xiaofei Xu and Joseph Ataman , CNN 3 minute read ...

France will bar children in public schools from wearing the abaya, a loosefitting, full-length robe worn by some Muslim women, the government said this week. It said the measure was necessary to ...

French authorities are to ban the wearing in school of abaya dresses worn by some Muslim women, the education minister said Sunday, arguing the garment violated France's strict secular laws in ...

Through the abaya, women can express their religious ... (Armin Langer, Assistant Professor of European Studies, University of Florida. The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily ...

So this week, as outsiders looked on with a mixture of astonishment and outrage at the banning of the traditional Muslim abaya robe in schools, the French themselves gave the measure an ...

Muslim Brotherhood movement, which was founded in Egypt in 1928, is under strict scrutiny in France. In 2023, France banned ...

France will ban school pupils attending state-run facilities from wearing the abaya, a loose-fitting, full-length dress some Muslim women wear. Education Minister Gabriel Attal, who was only promoted ...

French education minister Gabriel Attal said in an interview on Sunday that he would ban Muslim schoolgirls from wearing the abaya in classrooms. “I have decided that the abaya could no longer ...

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France will ban schoolchildren from wearing abayas ahead of the upcoming academic year, the government has said, the latest in a series of contentious restrictions in the country on clothing ...