Not that this is a question of numbers, but there not that many Muslim schools in France. Actually the first one was created last year only receiving 30 students. I guess that with this law a few more will pop up in the next few years. From the 12 million children that gets affected by this law, about 1.8 million are Muslim girls. 72 students were expelled so far but I wouldn’t be surprised if the number keeps rising since schools were instructed to not expel on the act but to try dialog first.

Anyway, more than a question of numbers is a question of tolerance.

Choice is still there — if Muslim women want to wear what is clearly a religious symbol (a T-shirt isn’t, no matter what is imprinted on it) and still attend school there are many state-run Muslim schools or even private ones.

And this applies not only to Muslims, but all other religions too.

Even if with this choice Muslim (or Christian) women want to practice their religion, I’m sure there are other countries where they will be free to do so.