She said: “I had no intention of swimming”. This rush of sales suggests to me that women are showing solidarity for those repressed by these laws overseas.
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“We should be past tolerance in Canada”, Trudeau said on Monday after a meeting with his ministers.
The Muslim rights group, Collective against Islamophobia, said that 16 women have been given fines in the past fortnight on the Riviera under the ban – but argues that none were wearing a burkini. “It was created to integrate into Australian society”, she said in a phone interview with the Thomson Reuters Foundation from Sydney. In its ruling, that court said that the burkini ban was “necessary and measured” in the context of the Nice Bastille Day attack and the murder of a Catholic priest by Islamist militants. The burqa ban, which exists also in Belgium and the Netherlands, has left many Western European Jews concerned that it would lead to the passing of measures also limiting the wearing of Jewish symbols in public.
“I usually wear a normal headscarf, I don’t hide my face”. She’s also disappointed that her design has been politicised and associated with a certain race.
That woman on the beach in Nice wasn’t just stripped of her clothing.
In a variation of the YouTube phenomenon known as “cats vs. cucumbers”, we are now witnessing “French mayors vs. burkinis”, with daily apoplectic reactions to full-body swimsuits worn by some Muslim women.
The images, which have gone viral, have widely been interpreted as the woman being ordered to remove her tunic by police, although the circumstances remain unclear.
A French photo agency that acquired the rights to the images told Libération that the photographs were “certainly not staged, as some people have alleged”, and were the work of an unnamed freelancer “who happened to be on the beach at the time”, looking for images of the ban being enforced. The spectacle struck many as menacing, nearly medieval, revealing a deep intolerance for religious expression as well as an absurd notion of what constitutes national security. “It’s oppressive to tell women what to wear and equally as oppressive to tell them what not to wear”.
The French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM), which was set up by the French government as the official voice of France’s Muslims, said it was outraged at the pictures.
The best way to prove them wrong is to unite against this backwards ban. I am completely unencumbered by my burkini when I swim and suggestions that the fabric might weight me down and put me in a spot of bother only promotes the stereotype that Muslim women can’t swim.
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The secularisation of France’s system of public education is written into the constitution, the text which has the greatest authority within French law. The ban on the burkini has triggered nationwide debates regarding women’s rights, religious clothing, and secularism. There has been little public discussion about a possible nationwide ban in Spain, where very few women wear the full veil. The Rabbi went on to say that wearing a burkini was “not innocent, it’s sending a message”.
