New Delhi: Education Minister Gabriel has given a big statement on Sunday regarding Islamic Abaya in French schools. He said that a ban will be imposed on the wearing of Abaya by girl students in government schools. According to the report, French Education Minister Gabriel Attal spoke to TF1 television about the ban on Abaya. He said that from September 4, schools are reopening across the country.
New Delhi: Education Minister Gabriel has given a big statement on Sunday regarding Islamic Abaya in French schools. He said that a ban will be imposed on the wearing of Abaya by girl students in government schools. According to the report, French Education Minister Gabriel Attal spoke to TF1 television about the ban on Abaya. He said that from September 4, schools are reopening across the country. But before that the heads of all schools will be told clear rules at the national level.
The minister said that now girl students will not be able to wear it in schools. He said that Abaya violates ‘strict secular laws’ in education, so it will be banned.Usually in France, there has been a lot of controversy after decisions like this. 10 percent of the country population is Muslim. In such a situation, the danger of controversy is looming this time also.
Education Minister Gabriel Atal said that secularism means freedom to liberate oneself through schools. The move comes after months of debate over the wearing of abayas in French schools, where women have long been banned from wearing the Islamic headscarf. The right and far right had pushed for the ban, which the left argued would encroach on civil liberties.
He said, “You enter the classroom, you will not be able to identify the religion of the students by looking at them.” There have been reports of tensions within schools over the issue of the increasingly wearing of the abaya in schools and between teachers and parents. “Secularism means the freedom to emancipate oneself through the school,” Atal said, calling the abaya “a religious gesture, intended to test the republic’s resistance to the secular sanctuary that the school creates.”
Actually, a law was passed in March 2004 in France. Through this, the wearing of those things in schools was banned, through which one’s religion can be identified. This included large crosses, Jewish hats and hijabs. Abaya is the opposite of Hijab, where only the head is covered through Hijab and the face is visible. And Abaya works to cover the whole body. Although the face is visible even in this. There was no ban on it yet.
