Support Netizen to Sarah in France

Post-prohibition long skirts set a school principal on a warm Thursday morning last month, Sarah, girl Muslim (15) hold a polite clothes wearing it. In fact, the moment he gets support from the netizen to keep wearing her skirt, as reported by The Anadolu Agency, Saturday (2/5/2015).

Earlier, the French Algerian Muslim girls had been accustomed to releasing keurudungnya before he entered JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL gate Leo Lagrange in Charleville-Mezieres. Sarah had put on a veil over the last year, but so that he could attend school, he was forced to take it off because of a French law which prohibits 2004 students wear clothes or anything that shows the identity of the religion, such as the hijab, or crosses in schools.

However, in mid-April, he got something that makes her pleasantly surprised. "I was getting ready to release my veil as usual, and I saw the headmaster was waiting for me a few meters outside the school," said Sarah to The Anadolu Agency.

"He approached me and asked me to go back home and changed my clothes."

Sarah was wearing a long skirt. The principal tells him that his clothes were "too religious." Because she lives far away from the school, Sarah begged the principal to allow him to attend on that day, and pledged to change his clothes the next day.

But Sarah permintaa rejected by the principal. The next day, he came up with the pants. There is no problem.

But when the next day he came back to school wearing a long black skirt. Sarah banned again and was told to return home with an accompanying warning letter addressed to parents.

"That's not a valid reason to exclude me from school," said Sarah. "The skirt is just a style of dress, there is no sign that is striking. This is a beautiful skirt and I feel happy to wear it. "

French officials, however, defended the action instead of a local school principal and said that the principal action was in accordance with the law.

Support netizen to Sarah

Sarah's case has caused outrage in the media netizen sosiall. With the hashtag #JePorteMaJupeCommeJeVeux (I wear my skirt because I like to wear it) support it spread like a virus around the world.

Abdallah Zekri, President of the National Observatory Against Islamophobia told The Anadolu Agency that the principal action was "outrageous and unacceptable" that a girl expelled from school on the grounds of violating the principles of secularism.

"Wearing a long skirt rather than something flashy," Zekri said. "That girl has sought respect applicable law by not wearing her head scarf at school, so I could not see the secularism which they're talking about."

"I'm sure I was suspended because the school knows I wear veils when outside of school," says Sarah. " Why the other girls but non-Muslims wear long skirts are allowed? “

ELSA Ray, a spokesman of the movement "together Against Islamophobia" in France told The Anadolu Agency that Sarah is not the case the case stands on its own.

"During the last two years, we deal with hundreds of similar cases," said Ray. "In the last few months, some girls were expelled from the classroom due to wearing skirts in the southern city of Montpellier."

"The suspension from school for such reasons is against the law. This is an attack against freedom of the girls, who have the right like anybody else to dress the way they want, "he added.

Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, said on Twitter that the French "bring secularism too far."

"In the future I will go back to school to continue my education and I will still be wearing my skirt," said Sarah with the tone firmly.

Asked what she would do if she got fired again, Sarah smiled and said, "Let's wait and see what will happen."