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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @02:21AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @02:21AM (#394402)

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday August 29 2016, @10:52AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday August 29 2016, @10:52AM (#394586) Journal

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @06:53PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @06:53PM (#394874)

      It flows through the intarweb, up into your computer, and as soon as there is 300 pounds of it accumulated, your computer emits a loud "snap" as it leaps on you. It will suck your brains out through your anus, then ooze back into the intarwebs, leaving no clue behind. And, you, will join the ranks of the lizard people, as a disguise for one of them.

      So... it's just like CNN then?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 30 2016, @09:42AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 30 2016, @09:42AM (#395197)

        Introduction

        The video below contains an interview with Hamed Abdel-Samad by one of Germany’s public broadcasters, the ARD. Born and raised in Egypt and the son of a Sunni imam, Mr. Abdel-Samad is an author and an apostate from Islam under police protection. He came to Germany in 1995 at the age of 23.

        The subject of the interview arises from recent statements by politicians of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party to the effect that Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy (cf. Gates of Vienna). A draft policy has just been published and it contains an Article entirely devoted to Islam’s “strained relationship to the democratic world order”. The policy is to be discussed at a party convention to be held in two weeks’ time.

        Deputy party leader Beatrix von Storch is quoted in the video interview from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung which reports her as saying that

        “Islam is inherently a political ideology, which is incompatible with the Constitution,”

        Referring to Islam’s paraphernalia, she said:

        “We are in favour of a ban on minarets, on muezzins and for a ban on full body coverings.”

        Alexander Gauland, party whip for the AfD in Brandenburg and a deputy party leader, made a statement along the same lines:

        “Islam is not a religion in the same way as Catholic or Protestant Christianity, but is intellectually always connected with the takeover of the state. For that reason the Islamisation of Germany is dangerous,”

        At the basis of these quotations is the party platform [pdf] of the AfD’s Federal Association (Bundesverband). The lengthy Article 7.6, “Islam in strained relationship with our liberal-democratic World Order”, contains the following section which provides an idea of the spirit of the document:

        “The AfD rejects the minaret as an Islamic symbol of dominance as much as it does the call of the muezzin, according to which there is no God except the Islamic Allah. The minaret and the call of the muezzin stand in contradiction to a tolerant coexistence of the religions which the Christian churches practise in the modern age.” (Section 7.6.3, 19-22)

        Article 7.6 contains the following sections:

        7.6.1 Islam does not belong to Germany
        7.6.2 Criticism of Islam must be permitted
        7.6.3 Foreign financing of the mosques must be ended
        7.6.4 No statutory corporation for Islamic organisations
        7.6.5 Prohibition of full body covering

        This last section (7.6.5) is noteworthy in that it is finally at least a quasi-official application of standards to Muslims which the Frankfurt School requires as a template only for the European cultural sphere:

        The AfD calls for a general prohibition of the full body covering by the burka and niqab in public and in the public service.

        Burka and niqab erect a barrier between the wearer and their surroundings and impede thereby cultural integration and social coexistence. A prohibition is therefore necessary and lawful pursuant to the judgement of the EuGH (European Court of Justice).

        No headscarf is to be worn in the public service; in educational institutions, neither by teachers nor by students following the French model.

        The headscarf as a religio-political sign of subordination of Muslim women to the man is inconsistent with the integration and equal rights of women and girls as well as the unimpeded development of personality.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 31 2016, @12:26AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 31 2016, @12:26AM (#395518)

          Links?