Back to school: Muslim girls battle France’s new abaya ban | The Take
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- French students returned to class facing yet another battle over what some Muslim girls are choosing to wear. This time it’s the abaya, a long loose-fitting dress. Dozens of students were sent home after nearly 300 showed up to the first day of classes in abayas. French women have been here for a while now: head coverings, including the hijab, were first banned in public schools back in 2004. So how will this latest ban impact Muslim students and communities today?
In this episode:
Loubna Reguig, national president of the Muslim Students of France
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Will the muslim countries give the same freedom to other people in their countries,like wearing frocks,skirts,bikini,half pants rtc.
Well said.
No
None of Muslim countries claims to give their people freedom and democracy it is the Western countries who claims that is their value democracy and women freedom in reality they want everybody to be like them the Western countries democracy is a deception
Did these people not know the culture of these countries when they moved thier entire families there and I'm south Asian myself
so i am guessing when moving to another country, countries should say dont bring your religion, dont bring your culture, we are going to treat you as an outsider but dont act like an outsider.😋
Interesting how people see them as foreigners or migrants when the vast majority of them are indeed French with French parents. Plus many of those families (their grand parents...) were brought in by France when France needed to increase their labor class. People really don't know anything about France....They chose to wear a dress that culturally happens to be worn mainly in Arabic countries. French law allows tradition or cultural outfit in schools by law. If it was already forbidden, a new text/"law to come" would not be needed. And since that Text does not even respect the French version of Laïcité and French Constitution it's going to be overturned by the Law just like it was done for the Text regarding the burkini not too long agi This topic is just a waste of time and money for all French citizens.
@@amiramin82 moving to another country is learning their way assimilate the country you can preserve you culture whatsoever you can’t enforce your culture in the a country that allow you to stay and make a life in , same way if any foreigner move to an Islamic country it need to fallow the same rules
@@amiramin82 you cant ask for a ride but only if you get to drive.
Conform to the culture you are graciously being invited into. OR LEAVE
@@heredianna2496To born in Japan does not make you Japanese. Plus they weren’t brought in France by France, they decided to go to France for a better life. Please do not deform truth.
I am Asian and i don't understand why these people move thier entire families to these countries of they don't want to be a part of these cultutes go for education or training or work but then come back home
Civil liberty was told to be their culture. Maybe that's why they moved there.
Usually bc they had limited options of what countries they could travel to and become successful
@@feyziwithnosurname7011that's for their own people. These foreign invaders can't impose their ideology
@@bangoutmedia6361 there are 25 Muslim countries why they decide to go to a western country , because after all the BS of Islam Christian’s countries are way better ..
@@rogeramezquita5685why wester desited to clonise
This is ridiculous everyone should be allowed to wear what they feel comfortable in. Shame on France. Specially if their dress code is due to religious discrimination from others. These are intelligent woman it is a choice they themselves are making they have that right. I wonder what is wrong with President Macron ????? I am with the women stay strong stay just and stick to your truth this is definitely breaking the human rights law ❣️
Why can't we do that in many Islam countries???
Where is EDUCATION FOR GIRLS????
True because the have no shame may be wearing decent clothes is a shame for them
@@aireenkhan7893What is decent clothes to you ? Give me a break 😅 I am Norwegian and I remember very well what my great grandmother and grandmother and my mother and I myself wear let clothes be clothes. These are dictated to by a man that married a much older woman, ok but it sounds like he has got a problem with clothes 😅
@@Truthseeker371Do what ? I have lived in many different Muslim countries even worked no one ever told me what to wear.
France has rules so does saudí arabia and iran
yep all 3 not Free
Yes but Iran and Saudi are enforcing the rules of their religion and France is banning the practice of one specific religion which they don't like, which is discrimination.
@@alinaqirizvi1441 Sounds like Iran or Saudi Arabia are ideal countries for other religions come and build their community their 💀
@@Abida_mar636 Oh hello, I see you here again 🤷🏻♀️
@@Meng_37892 why not? As long as they observe hijab in public. That's not too much to ask
I’m an atheist, and I think this is so very wrong. The clothes that people wear are part of their cultural identity. I don’t want to live in a world where the government dictates what we wear, either in a you must or you must not fashion. It seems overtly cruel to these people and the ones who are cheerleading it sure do seem to come across as racist or worse. These are children they can’t just up and leave, they fled their homes in a lot of cases because they were getting murdered by their former governments telling them to go home is needlessly cruel as well. Everyone should feel free to express themselves in their authentic way, the only restriction being that your expression stops when it infringes on other peoples. This is a very dangerous road to head down and when the next cultural dress is banned will we let that slide as well.
In America yes in Europe no
You must respect the culture of your host country. If you do not want to accept then go elsewhere.
@@draconian8994your name suits your mindset
Its only at school. Geez
Thanks man
This is French land 🇨🇵 and their rules
France must leave Africa
@@baniadam8325 Arabs and Africans must leave france
@@baniadam8325
They asked France to be there to fight terror
@@Abida_mar636 It's laïcité, it's not discriminatory.
@@baniadam8325 and there will come russia and china and then whole africa will be huge massacre
in France you have right to be nude but no right to choose your cloth. it's a clear human rights violation . Shame France.
But not nude in school. Accept their culture or quit.
In Islamic countries, what would happen if a women entered the Moskee in bathing suit? Dress codes are everywhere. When in France you are to respect French laws and habits. Allowing these girl an exception would be a foul crime. They must be taught respect!
Leave
I find it horrifically ironic that countless schools across Europe are sending girls home and modifying their uniforms because short skirts and tight trousers are distracting, and France here is doing the exact opposite.
They are not Distracting if you're not Mentally ill or for normal people.
Control your Horniness, They are Humans,
not sexual objects which you need to cover every inch of the body.
What a useless debate... France has 5 millions pupils... 300 pupils wear the abaya... Is that a threat? Schools are ruined, short of teachers, parents are struggling with money... And the most important problem is the abaya. How to distract the population. However, the more you will tell people they can't do something, the more they will do it.
Rules are meant to be obeyed, threat or no threat. If you are not pleased move to Afghanistan where you can show you culture freely.
If you don't like it move out of France 🤷
These same girls keep quiet and do not support Iranian girls who are battling to choose not to wear a head covering.
why???? they life in france...
🤦♂️ the logic of the people decreases
All Muslim women in the West who have chosen to migrate to these countries happily wear the headscarf as a dare. But the Iranian women who have yoghurt thrown on their heads and killed for lack of insubordination are abandoned by their sisters. Afghan women covering their faces because the lose value according to the Taliban are ignored. Instead the Western women brazenly fight Western systems when they could have chosen Iran or the Middle East to migrate to.
The France government doesn't compare them with Sudis or Iran. They always say that we are better, we have more freedom. 😅😂
I see their real Face
Israeli forces strip-search of Palestinian women, what you have to say about that?
These are French girls so ? Why should French teenagers girls focus on that... Does not even make sense.
Are French teenagers feminists focusing on feminism in other countries? No, and that's a complete and normal behavior from teenagers.
We do not have the right to immigrate and then force the inhetent cilture to change. We, as incomers, should be humble and respective of the traditional culture of our host country.
Rather, France is turning against democratic values and freedom of expression in this move… actually newcomers should help resist this evil French government, and overthrow it.
OK Frenchie. Nobody is forcing you to wear Abaya and change your culture. You don’t make sense.
@@Sultan-gr5tktheir love for the euro will make them comply, abaya will go
That's a very backward, misogynistic point of view. There is nothing about French culture that is inherently immodest. There are long dresses in every culture. And if a French girl feels comfortable wearing only long dresses, she should be able to.
@@babymonalisa you only love the euro and EU passport,you don't really respect French culture..you cannot have all
Well, if you don’t like the school dress code in France you can go to places, where it is allowed, like Afghanistan… oops, girls are not allowed to go to school there 😮.
THEY can. Just NOT AT SCHOOL.
The only Islamic country you know is Afghanistan? Would be a great place if you guys had stayed out if it in the first place, like all the other places in the Middle East, Africa, Latino countries, etc. No place is safe where you put your eyes on.
@@amina8048 It cuts both ways. Islam colonized Spain, Portugal, Romania, Yugoslavia. Did I leave any other country out???? You imposed your infidel tax, dress codes on infidels, languages and culture stoo. I'm including your Umayyad, Abbasid, and Ottoman Caliphates .
@@amina8048 wah!!
Everyone should wear what they want!!
Or not wear anything at all like nudists.
*France🇫🇷 still occupied Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Réunion, Mayotte, Saint Martin, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Pierre & Miquelon, New Caledonia, Wallis & Futuna, Polynesia, Clipperton.*
France must end occupation & keep peace!
And why would a country leave an empire. If you want your land back, rebel, fight for it, or vote for a government that supports independence.
@@darkvalue505 Or do like Mali or Niger.
all these places voted to remain French, you mad ?
@@-AytaL- no vote was conducted, France arm-twisted their leaders to sign a document that would give Independence on one hand and remain colonies on the other. Those who refused to sign, like Guinea had their infrastructure installations dismantled and public services compromised. No other European nation having colonies in Africa did the ridiculous things that France did in Africa.
Fair enough! You live in a western society now so it’s their rules just the same as we have to cover up in Muslim countries as a sign of respect to your laws and customs 😊
Force and respect are different. I think you know the difference.
It's not true that Western clothes are always short. Every culture has long dresses and some westerners actually prefer those. Would it be right to force them to wear short dresses just to prove a point to a few female students? Or does this law apply only to racial minorities?
Pretty sure our rules say a young girl should not be forced by police and teachers to reveal more skin than she is comfortable with, unless you live in an intolerant right wing state that victimizes women and girls to terrorise their community.
So according to you women should be forced to wear less clothes then what makes them comfortable to please other people?
@@itaz6276 if it bothers you the lenght of western clothes, go live in a non western country
very good !! Congrats to France - Quebec banned all religious symbols - more countries need to do that too...
What is a woman?
@@baniadam8325 What Is a Woman? is a 2022 American online film about gender and transgender issues presented by conservative political commentator Matt Walsh.
@@idm8885 you can't even define woman
@@baniadam8325 I just answered your question :) go shave your beard
@baniadam8325 go ask this question to 6 year old baby hazart ayesha who was married to 54 year old man named Mohammed.
I'm not sure why this is such a problem. Even if they are not Muslim, certain Islamic countries mandate women and girls to wear hijab.
Women in Iran and Afghanistan, for example, are required to wear a hijab regardless of reason.
An Abaya is an Arab dress. It’s not religious it’s cultural. So this is essentially a racist attack on another cultures dress. Muslimmwomen can wear any long dresses to cover their bodies but this law stops them from wearing any kind of long dress if they’re Muslim
I agree That’s like saying if someone comes to Germany from France they can’t speak French or do anything remotely french
If you don't like their rules, then leave.
What is the difference between them and the Taliban 🤷♂️
All Girls are told by men to cover up and not go to school vs some girls are told by men to take of their dress so more of their body can be seen in order to go to school.
Leave the girls to their education free to wear what they're comfortable wearing.
They're all the same. They're all fanatical with their barbaric laws of shariah.
The taliban beat women in the street the French government does not 😅
Well spoken, Loubna!
The Islamic woman and girls of France don't have to fight the government decree against religious head covrrnings, they can simply dress in customary French female attire from the late 1900 which covered the body and was customary to have a head coverning. Not religious
What is France 😢😢😢losing African colonies 😂😂😂
Moslems would not tolerate western dresses in their countries, but they want Christian countries to accept their dresses without questions. This sense of entitlement would always create conflicts. The activist is ignorant of history otherwise she would advocate more modesty in foreign lands.
@@Abida_mar636 what is the religion of France?
Then why are so many westerners working in the UAE. Maybe they should go back home too.
@@draconian8994 atheists nowadays. Soon becoming Islamic at the rate people are embracing Islam everywhere in the world.
@@Abida_mar636 France is a Christian Roman Catholic country Historically
@@rogeramezquita5685Historically. Now they are secular. Big difference.
Agree with France 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷
so you agree banning girls from school just because they wear something they like and want?
🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ Democracy in downfall
The number of *s in the comments is staggering.
lols they battle for a peace of clothing... meanwhile women in iran fight for their freedom... LOL
Some of the haters on this comments, just really want to ask you if you have hearts and feelings of others????????
what do you care what the girls wear?
are you human being? Please get some education and don’t be follow blindly specially in Religion, not just Islam🙏
They don't respect other
Don't accept from other
And ya you are good guys
France must leave Africa
And Africa should leave France. Makes sense?
Not the topic discussed
@@darkvalue505 yeah, with whats left of the resources you took from their countries and are still taking. Shame on you and your ignorance/arrogance.
And Africans should leave France? 👁️👄👁️
Without Africans, France would never have won the World Cup
I wonder what would happen if a teen girl showed up in jeans and tshirt to school im say....gaza?? Or afghanistan??
FRANCE Keep it up
Even Saudi Arabia got out of Women fashion police business. Now the last 3 countries remaining are Iran, Afghanistan, and France.
well, ah, you just lied.
stop covering your women and welcome to the 21st century.
It seems France is extremely angry for Niger and Gabon decolonization!
Love to see shorts and skirts fully embraced in public schools all over the Muslim world. Any idea when this could happen?
Iran in the 70s.
It does in some places.
Why are you comparing your "free", "democratic" country to the "backward" Muslim countries?
It’s racism at its worst.
It is... pure and simple.
It's secularism and civilization
Yeah! But Morrocco and Saudi Arabia bans Bibles. You can wear Christian crosses in international schools in the Middle East. It is considered haram or shirk. Can a Christian wear a Catholic wardrobe in a public school in the Middle East. Of course not.
Rules changes. And if you don't like the rules, leave the country.
France says no abayas, that means no abayas. So, she should take it off or go somewhere else. Simple. Good.
@@darkvalue505 What covering your hair/ body has to do with Christian cross?
They are French and have every right to wear what they like and how they want to appear in public.
Then Saudi Arabia, Oman, Iran and other Middle Eastern countries should allow Christians to wear what they want in public schools too in their country. Well guess what, they can't. @@resurrectedone7463
If you move to a country you can’t cling to your old country’s ways
Says who? Where is the democracy the West is preaching and boasting about to other countries? You're all just ridiculous.
@@Abida_mar636 Hijab/burqua/abaya are all religious symbols that represent for an ideology which France doesn’t want it to exist in their society. Tell me why France Nevers have any issue with other religions like Buddhism or Jewish? 🤷🏻♀️🇫🇷
Hitler did also at first such restrictions on jews .
A soceity without law is death.
School is a place for knowledge and discipline not for ideological expression.
In iran they were slaughtered for that dress code In France they are civiled abide by their rules
Shayateen min al ins means idolators tries hard to make world a nude place without modesty and they oppose faith in one true God and they oppose family system.
Hocus pocus.
Go France 🇫🇷 We are proud of you!!!! Big support for you from other countries including Australia 🇦🇺
Who directed you to speak on behalf of "other countries" or that of your own? Lol
@@amina8048 We all know how many regions are so concerned with your ‘peaceful religion’, ask Indians or Europeans 💀
I bet there are lots of middle aged gammons, salivating at the prospect of finally being able to violate the privacy of these young girls. Congratulations. Once you have achieved this enormous feat, all your problems will be over! 👏
I don't think governments should be dictating dress codes, but I don't live in France. If a country has a right to make women wear an abaya (or other article of clothing), then another country has the right to forbid it.
For someone who loves the arabic culture I am hurt by this. It's a cultural thing to wear your Hijab and Abaja. How is this law even making sense.
Is there soace for those who dont love the Arabi culture? Can other races love their culture?
The places for wearing is in islamic countries!
Why are not the men wearing the face cover as well? If they want to continue to oppress themselves that's ok, do it out of the classroom. Leaving the face uncovered is for public safety. Better yet there are countries where you can freely cover your faces, go there
Yeah, and the French also love their cultural values and expect the new comers to adjust accordingly. They have been already very welcoming.
@@deidradahl2802well just 2 years ago they forced all of you to cover your faces, and nobody considered it as a threat. but don't worry, they will force you to many more things, just wait.
But why did they left their country at first going to a place where they still called place of sin but still go there to live
Tu peux aller pays des musulmans.....Pakistan Somalie Attend...Je peux payer quelque billets....🎉..Non racisme mais pour votre confort des choses religieuses..
Is this the Spanish Inquisition of over 05 centuries ago all over again?😮
The Muslim laws of shariah are why the Spanish Inquisition happened. Double standard. Check your facts.
In the US most of the kids wear uniforms to school. Not sure why anyone is exceptional.
Agreed, if there is a uniform of the school then it should be that uniform. that is not the issue here
@@amiramin82 well there is obvious some sort of code to follow. Here again why are some exceptions?
Very few schools in the US wear uniforms at all.
@@TracyMclaughlin-je6of the county I live in the children do. So in your small world maybe not.
@@TheePrettyGirlSwaguniforms have never been a majority practice in America this about forcing assimilation
ASSIMILATION BY FORCE
Religion also forces many things on a person. So does Culture. It's natural that even Rules of a country needs to be forced or else it will be ugly chaos if people are not forced to do certain things in certain way.....
totalitarian force is not "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité" besides woman’s right to privacy of her body’s not a religious issue .. yet French totalitarians making it a woman’s humiliation ritual .. shame on French totalitarians💔😿 targeting school girls
💔 🇫🇷 making a mockery of "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité"
@@KawakebAstrabut thew French support this law though, so what's the problem?
I mean. During the Muslim expansion. They did he same Christian’s were force to convert to Islam .. read History ….
The girls should wear a long sleeved flowing dress with the slogan "keep your religion out of my education. This is a dress not an Abaya"
France must be thrown out from UNSC and EU.
good job french, hope rest of the europe follow ur lead soon!
Love the take
All community government behind islam it means islam is first'
They reproduce so fast dont forget
Hypocrisy in it's fullest. France is a multicultural country whether they like it or not. Then again these women just have to comply instead of acting like victims. It's no big deal😧
Multiculturalism will always fail , one way or the other. It erodes trust between people and create constant conflicts until it develops into a major conflict with one unified culture standing. The only question is which one.
Don't like secularism
Don't go to France
Nah France is not multicultural whatsoever their history goes at way back over. 2000 years , you can be born in France and adopt the French ways however the people the native to the area will never see you as one of them …
@@rogeramezquita5685
Not really
If u assimilate.. All should be well
Their education is laica means it cant show religion stuff in any way
if u wanna live the way u lived in your home country that you escaped then heres a thought DONT COME HERE
Not all escape some come for a lot more reasons. I have been told the best teachers and doctors comes from African countries and they are more than welcome since you are short of both. Intellectual property cost , if you happen to have a sick relative you love and the doctor that looks after him/her/child you might just change your racist attitude 😇 with other words you begged them to come.
@@anneankaspilling some they begged, others they forced out of their homes seeking safety and shelter against their soldiers in their homelands. They should stop being hypocrites and move out of their lands first and only then demand the refugees and others go back.
Abaya must be BAN
[05:37] It's about the intention!? Is it? YES! It is! The expected dress code is "casual French" (casual, not Louis Vuitton, Zara or other crazy stuff). It's a dress code as it applies in many places around the world. Go women to Moskees wearing monokini? I don't think that ever happened! You are to respect the places you go! RESPECT! Over 20 minutes video about how not to respect countries and peoples. It's just unbelievable.
May Allah s.w. t destroys French govt. 😀🤲
FRANCE > islam
It should have been mentioned that all overt religious symbols are not allowed, including christian crosses and Jewish skullcaps.
A reply to all the comments that they forgot how these countries colonize those countries and were forced to speak their languages as well as adopting their culture so even these days so many countries couldn’t change and go back to their originality. Stop Being RACIST and respect each other’s cultures and skin colours.
I mean Arabic and Islam was forced by the Arabs in the entire North Africa the real language of North African is Tamazight
I'm significantly more disgusted with societies that FORCE girls to wear these clothes than governments that refuse to let them wear them in school.
What the government here is trying to say is that the vicious misogyny that comes with Islam is unacceptable. I approve the message but if in control myself - I wouldn't ban the outfit. I'd prefer to have assemblies where speakers condemned religious obsession with female chastity.
The real problem is that France allowed in so many of these religious fanatics in the first place.
You will never undermine Islam,
common, missing a day at school is not a big tragedy. they will go next day dressed accordingly.
Abaya shall survive.
In the Middle East, yes.
@@darkvalue505 in your,macron's France.
Amazing news
Uniforms should be made mandatory
Western women's rights organizations Where Art Thou?
When piece of cloth in trousers wear men and women is not islam how could be head cloth?
Hijab is only islamic for particular adhering of islam.
Every person is free to wear what ever according their choosing.
One thing she doesn't understand is school everywhere tells the children what they can and cannot wear and everywhere children obey she is odd because she wants her way and it's not about her it's about conforming to the system and everyone is the same
School uniforms was made and applied for many reasons in the pass. In sport I think it’s ok but uniform is a bit too much regimental I prefer them wearing their own clothes.
@@anneankaspilling Regimental it must be if that is the school culture.
Assimilate or get out.
What is crazy about Macron! Is there anything restrictions growing economy with Abaya 😮 . Anything contradiction or entanglement with capital or "culture" ?or others jouissance ?If Jacques lacan was there 😮😮😮 what will be with Abaya ❤
Just wear a dress. Or introduce uniforms.
France battles instrumentalization of abaya by islamists to impose islam.
Abaya should be banned for that reason.
Abayas matters
yes. to their manufacturers.
🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷
@@Meng_37892 only 2 you. Its narcissistic
In Afganistan locals were called to return to the higab after the US moved out. Many woman were forced to throw out there denims and don the hijag.
For crying out loud, its just a gown! It aint gonna hurt anyone! 😡
They could be hiding a weapon.
Sounds to me not to be a "new" rule?
उनके देश उनके कानून, एकीकृत करने का प्रयास करें, अन्यथा ऐसे राष्ट्र में न जाएं जहां आपके पिछड़ेपन का स्वागत नहीं किया जाता है
Where their backwardsness doesnt tolerate your morals you mean?
So France is imposing a definition of secularism as non religious but it should actually mean peaceful coexistence and mutual respect.
French citizens should worry about their government's priorities.
Covering one's body with modest clothes is not a crime.
What a weird country
Black bug 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
All African country band france
And bring China. Yeah!
There is a simple solution to this problem. Leave , just leave.
Orrrr...! I dunno...let people live their lives with actual freedom of choice with no dudes guarding over every tiny aspect of their lives? not to remind you, but...France is a multicultural country! a bit contradicting if they would be upset over people *literally* bringing over their cultural and religious norms, yes?
Wp get over yourselves.
Be in your country and wear whatever you want to wear.
All Muslim country band frience
Déjà essayé pas des musulmans en 2020 pas succès 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Restez chez toi stp
😅😅😅😅 seriously?
Viva la France.
Here broker came happy to see al Jazeera tha the comedy ,u guys understand wht you doing means😂😂, supporting lgbt in West and opposing it in middle east😂😂 great work
Aleast some good news
Big brother is watching