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

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, Insightful) by isostatic on Sunday August 28 2016, @07:11PM

    by isostatic (365) on Sunday August 28 2016, @07:11PM (#394296) Journal


    Remember, Islam has been spread by the sword for more than a thousand years. Islam has never "pacified" a country, nation, or region, peacefully. They start small, with a few residents. They they start making demands. Then more demands. Then they start murdering people they don't like. On and on it goes, until they have taken over, and YOU are the illegal, in your own native land.

    You're talking about the US right?

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Monday August 29 2016, @11:14AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday August 29 2016, @11:14AM (#394596) Journal

    Yes, of course. And, where do you think we took our lessons? The pirates of the Barbary Coast were good teachers, if not good pirates.

    • (Score: 1, Troll) by isostatic on Tuesday August 30 2016, @12:32AM

      by isostatic (365) on Tuesday August 30 2016, @12:32AM (#395019) Journal

      Ahh yes, the us's first steps in colonialism. Projecting force thousands of miles away. And still you wonder why half the world hates you.