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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: 3, Insightful) by Username on Sunday August 28 2016, @07:28PM

    by Username (4557) on Sunday August 28 2016, @07:28PM (#394306)

    I would rather have a women defy them in the slightest than not at all.

    Plus it’s not a murder, it’s an execution. If they’re devout enough to go after her for it, they will get it sanctioned by the iman of their mosque otherwise they will go to hell. She would be another sharia casualty.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @12:34AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @12:34AM (#394373)

    Plus it’s not a murder, it’s an execution.

    We do not legally recognise the concept of religious execution in the UK, "honour" killings are murders! [bbc.co.uk]

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Monday August 29 2016, @01:22AM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday August 29 2016, @01:22AM (#394378) Journal

      We do not legally recognise the concept of religious execution in the UK, "honour" killings are murders!

      Which I might add, is a long-held tradition [wikipedia.org]:

      Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.