Some great first hand responses
@exeterboro and
@pierrequiroule to what, as usual with me, appears from your comments, to be a lot more complicated than I first thought.
I get that it's religiously symbolic but if a non religious girl may elect to wear a "loose fitting robe", would they be flouting the law? If not and they were sat next to a muslim girl who wasn't allowed to wear one would that be right? Just seems a step too far to me.
"there is a subtle long-term strategy by in particular the Muslim Brotherhood to nibble away at the edges of secularity in schools."
And this has fed that extremism without doubt. And these French (yes the majority of this generation were born in France) girls will feel genuine anger at the State, even those that may not elect to wear "loose fitting robes" will also feel genuine anger at the removal of their freedom to choose.
Don't you feel that in a way Abdoullakh Abouyezidovich Anzorov has acheived more in his heinous crime than he could have imagined, having driven the State deeper into non-tolerance and religious apartheid?