.EVERY FEW years the French obtain developed regarding an item of religious apparel that they regard unacceptable in the class. This time a debate has actually broken out at la rentru00e9e, the start of the brand new year, over an authorities choice to outlaw from state institutions the abaya, a whole robe put on by some Muslim females for discreetness. To people in nations along with a tradition of liberal multiculturalism, the restriction seems like an undesirable infringement of the right to religious look.
To protectors of a meticulous version of French secularism, it is actually a procedure essential to shield the state from theological obstruction. Why is actually France so worried regarding Muslim dress in its own colleges?