Gabriel Attal, now Minister of National Education having completed all
his education in the private sector, sets the tone upon taking office,with the ban on abayas in schools. ---- The question being: what rightdoes he have to decide what young women should wear? ---- As thefeminist demonstration in Aurillac on August 26 reminded us, women donot have the choice of being topless in this country. Sometimes toocovered, sometimes not enough: sometimes the CPE and principals claim tocontrol the depth of the neckline or the length of the shorts of highschool girls, sometimes they wear clothes that are too long, too baggywhich would symbolize their submission or an abnormal religiousaffiliation . When will the length of dresses be measured at schoolentrances?But it is obviously also a racist and Islamophobic announcement: intheir eyes, a long dress is, or becomes, Islamic clothing depending onthe person wearing it. White high school girls will be able to continueto wear long dresses when the same clothes sold in stores like H&M orZara worn by their Muslim classmates or those identified as such will bebanned.The obsession of French society and its political field for the clothingof black or Arab high school girls is not new, and it reminds us of thecontroversies over the wearing of headscarves in high schools in 1989leading to the 2004 law.The abaya is not a religious garment. Even if this were the case, theban on religious symbols is a deviation from secularism, supposed toprotect the right of everyone to live their beliefs - including inpublic spaces. The pseudo-secularism advocated here is a doublestandard: it is used to exclude and stigmatize high school girls fromthe school system, but it is strangely absent when it comes to releasing8 billion euros for private schools in 2022. % Catholics.The government's more than uninhibited racism is not just anotherback-to-school controversy to prevent us from "talking about realissues", such as the deterioration of public schools or the 3,000 vacantteaching positions at the start of the school year. 2023. This is alsothe political project of this government which continues to fuel racialhatred.We affirm our support for the Muslims of this country who are sufferingthe intensification of racist attacks from the right and the extremeright as well as the racist laws passed by the socialists. We must standup to Islamophobia wherever it comes from, even from the left or the farleft.We do not forget and express all our solidarity with Muslim women whoare organizing and fighting to obtain the same rights in society,whether in sport, with the Hijabeuses on the regulations of the FrenchFootball Federation or at the municipal swimming pool with the Union ofMuslim Women of Grenoble in 2022, all in a resolutely anti-racist andfeminist fight.Libertarian Communist Union, September 4, 2023.https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?L-interdiction-de-l-abaya-la-nouvelle-attaque-raciste-et-sexiste-du_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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