France's Education Minister announced last week that he was introducing a ban on the abaya because it went against France’s rules on secularism (laïcité) in education
is a constitutional principle in France requiring the separation of religious and government affairs, and of a person’s private religious practices and their participation in the public sphere. This involves restrictions on wearing conspicuous religious symbols in public schools, including, for example, Christian crosses, Sikh turbans and Muslim hijabs.promotes freedom of thought and religion, while opponents believe that it limits a person’s right to freedom of religious expression.
“There are signs or outfits that have always been seen, ostensibly, to be religious – the kippah for example, or the Catholic cross – they don’t only refer to a religious practice but they can only be worn by people who have that connection with the religion.” “I think the religious argument [about banning abayas in schools] is a bit of a cover for something else. I think that there is a section of public opinion which – whether it is religious or not – connects this garment with a tradition which is not their own; there is a lack of understanding and therefore an intolerance.”
“It is false that the abaya is systematically accompanied by a hijab and it is not a garment that covers the head. In addition to being false, I think that it gives people a warped sense of reality,” he said. “They decided it was an abaya probably because the garment was worn by women who could – based on their origins, their appearance – belong to a certain religion.”
Mr Del Torchio and his colleagues were joined by some local school pupils when they demonstrated outside the school on Wednesday, with one tellingTeachers on strike denounce the banning of the Abaya clothing in front of the Lycée Maurice-Utrillo in Stains, France.
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