{"id":425154,"date":"2023-09-06T13:32:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T08:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/?p=425154"},"modified":"2023-09-06T13:32:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T08:32:26","slug":"public-schools-in-france-send-home-dozens-of-muslim-girls-wearing-abayas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/public-schools-in-france-send-home-dozens-of-muslim-girls-wearing-abayas\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Schools In France Send Home Dozens Of Muslim Girls Wearing Abayas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1kas69x\">On the first day of the new academic year, French schools sent home dozens of girls for refusing to remove their abayas. Defying a ban on the Muslim garment, nearly 300 girls showed up wearing an abaya. Most agreed to change, but 67 refused and were sent home.<\/p>\n<p>The government\u00a0announced last month it was banning the abaya in schools, saying it broke the rules on secularism in education that have already led to Muslim headscarves being banned on the grounds they constitute a display of religious affiliation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">France is to ban pupils in state-run schools from wearing the abaya \u2013 a loose-fitting robe worn by many Muslim women and girls.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/natachabut?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@natachabut<\/a> says the country\u2019s education minister deems the garment a religious symbol which violates French secularism \u2935\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3CKu2h3ShK\">pic.twitter.com\/3CKu2h3ShK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJEnglish\/status\/1696526869829726433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old Education Minister Gabriel Attal. said the girls refused entry on Monday were given a letter addressed to their families saying that \u201csecularism is not a constraint, it is a liberty. If they showed up at school again wearing the gown there would be a \u201cnew dialogue\u201d.<\/p>\n\t\t<div class=\"p-alsoread\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"heading\">ALSO READ<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<div><a href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/internet-finds-another-aishwarya-rai-doppelganger-in-pakistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internet Finds Another Aishwarya Rai Doppelganger In Pakistan<\/a><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-425155\" src=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/w980-p16x9-france-school.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/w980-p16x9-france-school.jpg 980w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/w980-p16x9-france-school-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/w980-p16x9-france-school-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/w980-p16x9-france-school-364x205.jpg 364w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/w980-p16x9-france-school-758x426.jpg 758w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An association representing Muslims has filed a motion with the state council, France\u2019s highest court for complaints against state authorities, for an injunction against the ban on the abaya and the <em>qamis<\/em>, its equivalent dress for men.<\/p>\n<p>France\u2019s Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM), established to represent Muslims before the government, said the banning of the abaya could create \u201can elevated risk of discrimination\u201d and said it was considering putting its own complaint before the state council.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the first day of the new academic year, French schools sent home dozens of girls for refusing to remove their abayas. Defying a ban on the Muslim garment, nearly 300 girls showed up wearing an abaya. Most agreed to change, but 67 refused and were sent home. The government\u00a0announced last month it was banning the abaya in schools, saying [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/public-schools-in-france-send-home-dozens-of-muslim-girls-wearing-abayas\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":425156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1298,1612,2539,2540,2568,2517,1291,2578],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-425154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"category-fashion","9":"category-government","10":"category-international","11":"category-politics","12":"category-religion","13":"category-social-media","14":"category-street-buzz"},"wps_subtitle":"\"Secularism is not a constraint, it is a liberty\"","img_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/france-schools-364x205.jpg",364,205,true],"medium":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/france-schools.jpg",1000,560,false],"full":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/france-schools.jpg",1000,560,false]},"author_name":"Rija Sohaib","categories_name":["Culture","Fashion &amp; Beauty","Government","International","Politics","Religion","Social Media","Street Buzz"],"title_text":"Public Schools In France Send Home Dozens Of Muslim Girls Wearing Abayas","related_stories":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?filter&per_page=4&categories=1298,1612,2539,2540,2568,2517,1291,2578&exclude=425154","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425154"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=425154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}