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France's education minister has banned the wearing of the popular long robe known as the abaya in schools. He says it is a symbol of Islam. As students in France return to school this week ...

Muslim leaders have reacted with anger to a sudden move by the French government to ban the abaya in state schools. The loose-fitting long robe is considered too closely linked with Islam by ...

Female students will no longer be allowed to wear the loose-fitting abaya dress favoured by some Muslim women. The move comes almost 20 years after France banned headscarves from state schools.

French schools sent dozens of girls home for refusing to remove their abayas – an overgarment from the shoulders to the feet worn by Muslim women – on the first day of the school year ...

In 2018, it was announced that the abaya would no longer be legally enforced. The Saudi Arabian government establishment has banned the "abaya" from the examination halls of the educational ...