.EVERY FEW years the French get developed about an item of spiritual clothing that they regard as improper in the classroom. This time a dispute has burst out at la rentru00e9e, the start of the new year, over an authorities selection to prohibit coming from state colleges the abaya, a whole robe used by some Muslim women for discreetness. To individuals in countries along with a practice of liberal multiculturalism, the ban resembles an unacceptable infraction of the right to theological expression. To protectors of a rigorous model of French secularism, it is actually a measure important to safeguard the state coming from religious obstruction. Why is actually France so troubled concerning Muslim dress in its institutions?