.EVERY FEW years the French obtain developed about an item of theological garments that they deem unacceptable in the classroom. This time around a controversy has actually burst out at la rentru00e9e, the beginning of the new academic year, over a government selection to disallow from state universities the abaya, a whole robe put on through some Muslim women for quietness. To individuals in nations with a practice of liberal multiculturalism, the ban resembles an unacceptable infraction of the right to spiritual look. To defenders of a stringent version of French secularism, it is actually an action necessary to guard the commonwealth from religious disturbance. Why is France thus worried concerning Muslim wear its schools?