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French Court Suspends Swimsuit Ban

posted by martyb on Sunday August 28 2016, @08:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the we're-covering-this-story dept.

butthurt writes:

BBC News and CNN (disable CSS if page appears blank) report that the Council of State, a French administrative court, has suspended the ban on "burkini" swimsuits enacted in the town of Villeneuve-Loubet. The court has not yet decided whether the ban is legal or not. In the ruling, the court said that the ban "seriously and clearly illegally breached fundamental freedoms." Several other towns have recently enacted similar bans.

The Guardian (safe for work) reported on an incident in Nice in which the ban was enforced: police appeared to make a sunbather remove part of her suit.

previously:
The French Solution - or How I Learned to Laugh More (subtitle: Cannes Bans "Burkinis" Over Suspected Link to Radical Islamism)

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  • (Score: 2, Troll) by nishi.b on Sunday August 28 2016, @12:40PM

    by nishi.b (4243) on Sunday August 28 2016, @12:40PM (#394180)

    Islamists are the ones pushing for this type of clothing, you know what I mean. There are many muslim women in France on beaches wearing bikinis, the ones wearing burkinis are usually radical islamists. And I am yet to see people wearing Burkinis defending the right of Saudi women to wear bikinis, so asking for tolerance is a bit rich...

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 28 2016, @05:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 28 2016, @05:25PM (#394264)

    > the ones wearing burkinis are usually radical islamists.

    Just like nuns wearing habits on the beaches are "radical catholics."

    Don't be that asshole who thinks conservative equals (a) radical and (b) evangelical.
    Just because you are a big-time muslim doesn't make you an islamist.

  • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by vux984 on Sunday August 28 2016, @10:19PM

    by vux984 (5045) on Sunday August 28 2016, @10:19PM (#394335)

    the ones wearing burkinis are usually radical islamists.

    I don't think anybody spending their day dozing on a sandy beach is a 'radical' anything.

    And I am yet to see people wearing Burkinis defending the right of Saudi women to wear bikinis

    And I don't see you defending the right of these women to wear burkinis.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @12:04AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @12:04AM (#394361)

      Compare a news presenter being criticised for presenting the Nice atrocity while wearing a hijab [itv.com] Vs. ~26,000 complaints for this mid-90s TV performance. [youtube.com]

      The latter was nothing to do with the donning of a balaclava or the fact that IRA paramilitaries were still active, everything to do with english racism against singer James Bradfield for being Welsh... right?

      As the lyric would have it: I've been too honest with myself, I should have lied like everybody else!