{"id":96361,"date":"2023-09-08T22:49:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T19:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=96361"},"modified":"2023-09-08T22:49:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T19:49:29","slug":"french-high-school-goes-on-strike-over-islamophobic-abaya-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/france\/96361-french-high-school-goes-on-strike-over-islamophobic-abaya-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"French high school goes on strike over \u201cIslamophobic\u201d abaya ban"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>According to Aljazeera, teachers and students of a French high school have gone on strike in protest against the government\u2019s decision to ban abaya and qamis in public schools.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cWe want to distance ourselves from the government\u2019s Islamophobic policy,\u201d said a statement from the protest group at the Maurice Utrillo high school in Stains, Seine-Saint-Denis, calling for a strike which started on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The statement further noted that students must be welcomed at the high school and there is no need to police their clothing, adding: \u201cWe refuse to stigmatise students who wear an abaya or a qamis.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Parents joined the demonstration, during which the school\u2019s staff decried budget issues \u2013 criticising what they called a \u201cdrastic drop\u201d in necessary resources to teach well, including cuts on personnel and on teaching hours.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The recent ban on Islamic dress code has sparked a wave of criticism from activists and the Muslim community who describe the decision as discriminatory, while the French Government insists it will secure secularism in the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Aljazeera, teachers and students of a French high school have gone on strike in protest against the government\u2019s decision to ban abaya and qamis in public schools. \u201cWe want to distance ourselves from the government\u2019s Islamophobic policy,\u201d said a statement from the protest group at the Maurice Utrillo high school in Stains, Seine-Saint-Denis, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":96362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5040,31],"tags":[5395,5225],"class_list":["post-96361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-france","category-news","tag-abaya-ban-in-schools","tag-anti-muslim-practices"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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