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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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French Court Suspends Swimsuit Ban
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Everything you know is wrong!
(Score: 4, Interesting) by goodie on Sunday August 28 2016, @05:09PM
To add to your argument, I think that, and I mean no disrespect, people in the UK and North America simply do not realize how much French people expect everybody to be more or less the same when it comes to these things (and money etc.). Like parent said, nobody was dressed differently or behaved really differently for religious reasons. Now this does not mean that it is a good expectation or that French people did everything right when it comes to immigration etc. What is really worthy of note here is that this has skipped a generation. The previous generation did not wear burkas etc. as stated by parent. So the question is why now and why does the older generation not do more to try and alleviate these things?
WRT the burkini story, a North American person will often say "Why don't they let her do what she wants?" and a French will say "Why can't she wear a swimsuit like everybody else on the beach?". This is a stereotype but the mentality with regards to immigration, religion etc. are fundamentally different in France.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by jdavidb on Monday August 29 2016, @02:08AM
WRT the burkini story, a North American person will often say "Why don't they let her do what she wants?" and a French will say "Why can't she wear a swimsuit like everybody else on the beach?". This is a stereotype but the mentality with regards to immigration, religion etc. are fundamentally different in France.
The mentality that people should be made to do what others think is best is wrong whether it is French, American, or Klingon.
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