Pupils will be banned from wearing abayas, loose-fitting full-length robes worn by some Muslim women, in France’s state-run schools, the education minister has said.
The rule will be applied as soon as the new school year starts on 4 September.
France has a strict ban on religious signs in state schools and government buildings, arguing that they violate secular laws.
Wearing a headscarf has been banned since 2004 in state-run schools.
It is plenty fair. You use your own judgement all the bloody time. You don’t conduct opinion polls on every moral or ethnical decision. I gave you an extreme example but the concept is there. Right and wrong are not determined by what the majority has to say they are determined by individual actors.
So no I don’t think children should have their right to expression stripped away because 51% of the population decided to. That might be what ends up happening but that doesn’t make it good.
The majority is composed of individual actors.