Abaya Ban in French Schools Reopens Contentious Laïcité Debate and Deep Divisions
By Juan Sanchez Gil
As reported through a newsletter from the Brussels-based NGO Human Rights Without Frontiers, the end of summer vacation in France, known as the “rentrée,” often brings renewed social tensions. This year has followed that pattern, as the calm of summer gave way to another dispute over a recurring national issue: how Muslim women should dress. In late August, with France still on break, Gabriel Attal, the 34-year-old newly appointed education minister and a favorite of President Emmanuel Macron, announced that “the abaya can no longer be worn in schools”, reports Roger Cohen at the New York Times His abrupt order,
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