A 15-year-old Muslim girl has been banned from class twice for
wearing a long black skirt seen as too openly religious for secular France, in a case that has sparked an outcry.
The girl was stopped from going to class earlier this month by the
headteacher who reportedly felt the long skirt “conspicuously” showed
religious affiliation, which is banned in schools by France’s strict
secularity laws.
“The girl was not excluded, she was asked to come back with a neutral
outfit and it seems her father did not want the student to come back to
school,” local education official Patrice Dutot told AFP on Tuesday.
He admitted that the student always removed her veil before entering
school premises in the north-eastern town of Charleville-Mezieres, as is
specifically stipulated by law.
According to the 2004 law that governs secularity in schools, veils,
the Jewish kippa or large Christian crosses are banned in educational
establishments, but “discreet religious signs” are allowed.
The student, identified as Sarah by local daily newspaper
L’Ardennais, told the paper that her skirt was “nothing special, it’s
very simple, there’s nothing conspicuous. There is no religious sign
whatsoever”.
Her story was trending on Twitter in France with the hashtag
#JePorteMaJupeCommeJeVeux, translated into English as “I wear my skirt
as I please”.
“If it’s worn by a ‘white’ person, it’s hippy chic, if it’s a Muslim, it becomes conspicuous,” one user tweeted.
But the regional education office hinted in a statement that wearing
the skirt could have been part of a concerted “provocation.”
“When it comes to concerted protest actions by students, which follow
other more visible incidents linked for instance to wearing the veil,
the secular framework for education must be firmly reminded and
guaranteed,” it said.
According to the CCIF Islamophobia watchdog, about 130 students were rejected from class last year for outfits deemed too openly religious.
[article from the guardian x; picture taken from l’ardennais x]
Tweets:
@S_Kadawii: we can summarize this by: anaïs + long skirt = no problem; karima + long skirt = radical islamic extremism
@AntoineMokrane: recap: skirt too short, you’re being provocative, skirt too long, you’re being provocative
@kimbranine: insolent little muslim girls who want to go to school and have rights…
@Islametinfo: what’s the difference between these three women except for their religion?
@HamduliAllah: islamophobia and discrimination hidden behind secularity… since when is a skirt a religious symbol?
White ppl behave yourselves for once, we’re all getting tired of your nonsense abeg. Aren’t you tired of being so hateful???
if i ever fall asleep on you, you are 100% allowed to take a picture of us both
This is important.
But you aren’t allowed to post it anywhere unless I look cute.
exactly, needs approval before social media posting, BUT if you wish to secretly take one and not mention it & send it to me one day with thoughtful words, I could care less how bad I look you are winning in my book.
When in movies or whatever the dad figure has to leave, or dies, and he tells the little boy to ‘take care of your mother, you’re the man of the house now’
yeah
so basically we are framing grown ass women to be more incompetent than a (male) child?
and don’t tell me it’s just meant to make the son feel better about the dad leaving/dying because WOW that’s a lot of pressure to put on a kid don’t you think
SOMEBODY SAID THE THING FINALLY
Thank you!!!
“Son, you’re six years old now. You’re the man of the house while I’m gone. That’s right. Your maleness outranks the experiences and intelligence of a 35 year old woman.”
my fave greek history story to tell is that of agnodice. like she noticed that women were dying a lot during childbirth so she went to egypt to study medicine in alexandria and was really fucking good but b/c it was illegal for women to be doctors in athens she had to pretend to be a man. and then the other doctors noticed that she was 10x better than them and accused her of seducing and sleeping with the women patients. like they brought her to court for this. and she just looked at them and these charges and stripped in front of everyone like “yeah. im not fucking your wives” and then they got so mad that a woman was better at their jobs then them that they tried to execute her but all her patients came to court and were like “are you fucking serious? she is the reason you have living children and a wife.” so they were shamed into changing the law and that is how women were given the right to practice medicine in athens
me as warden:
C'MON GUYS LET'S DO THIS, WE HAVE AN ARCHDEMON TO KILL AND A WORLD TO SAVE AND I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT, GO TEAM GO, WOW WHAT A MARVELOUS RPG ADVENTURE
me as dragonborn:
okay look i know there's a fuckin dragon and i'm the dovahkiin and the listener and the harbinger and whatever, but u guys need to fuckin chill. i'll get to it when i get to it. fuckin hell. *goes back to seeing how many cheese wheels i can stack on top of each other while the world burns around me*
Rose/everone else fusions! lil bit about all of them:
Corundum is
fairly difficult to maintain, but her immense strength and size makes the
difficulty of her fusion worthwhile. She combines Rose’s kindness and wisdom
with Ruby’s fighting spirit and Sapphire’s self control, and she tends to be
courageous, resourceful, energized and always in a good mood. A combination of
different traits give her a perky sense of humor more snarky and clever than
that of her components.
Morganite
is a nearly perfect fusion and easy to maintain. However, she has trouble
remembering that she used to be two people and has been caught more than once
trying to escape from the rest of the team, wanting to be her own person. She’s
mostly useful briefly after fusing, while Rose and Pearl are still in control,
but becomes less and less motivated to do anything at all the longer she
remains fused and the more she manages to repress her components. Dreamy and
philosophical, she’s often lost in bouts of melancholy.
Spodumene
is the fusion who retains the most of her components’ individuality. She’s easy
to maintain, as she defaults to Rose’s personality if there is a disagreement -
Amethyst trusts her leader’s judgment more than she trusts her own. Spodumene
combines Amethyst’s sass with Rose’s warm social skills, and her extroverted,
transparent personality doesn’t make interacting with Spodumene much different
from interacting with Rose and Amethyst at the same time. The only unique
traits the fusion has is a more sensual, almost flirtatious attitude and the
occasional sinister threat directed at enemies (which is never carried out, as
Rose is able to contain Amethyst’s destructive instincts).
They’re all fusions of the current Crystal Gems’ looks and personality + Rose, which would be impossible, obviously, so this is just AU stuff. They’d all be a lot smaller and dorkier nowadays, what with Steven having the quartz-gem. They’d probably all be human-sized and -shaped too.
yknow i dont understand why some schools insist on students learning more than one foreign language (or maybe i should say ‘not-native’ language) and then expect everyone to be able to separate them
in one school i had to learn chinese and french side-by-side, which didnt go very well, but at least they were different enough for me to differentiate, but then in another i had to deal with french and polish, one class immediately after the other, and i got laughed at when i answered ‘tak’ to a question in french as if that was weirdest and dumbest thing they’d ever heard
that was suitably embarrassing for little!me, but me!me wonders what exactly those teachers even expected?
