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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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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 28 2016, @02:44PM
> Wait, you assume that a web site named "godreports.com" contains reliable information about Islam?
Welcome to Runaway's hyper-ventilating witch-hunt logic where anything crazy about muslims is true and anything reasonable about muslims is false. Don't even bother trying to point out the insanity, you can't reason someone out of a position they never reasoned themselves into.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 28 2016, @02:58PM
Could you kindly enlighten, educate and elaborate upon the reasonable aspects of Islam?
*cough*
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 28 2016, @03:20PM
> Could you kindly enlighten, educate and elaborate upon the reasonable aspects of Islam?
As someone who married a girl from a muslim family, I can say their reasonable aspects are the same as all the major religions.
> *cough*
How many hours have you spent around muslims?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 28 2016, @03:42PM
Ahmadi? [theguardian.com]
As an atheist living in a secular society, religion is irrelevant to me. You will forgive me for not running a stopwatch every time I interact with somebody from an identifiable religious denomination. That said; It was an eye-opener when I'd be drinking in a bar with a muslim friend and other muslims would just walk up and punch him in the face. "an Asian thing" apparently and my friend was adamant that I not involve myself.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 28 2016, @05:17PM
> Ahmadi?
Sunni. As if it matters. Nobody reasonable judges all christians by the actions of the westboro baptists, the lords army, the IRA or the KKK. But you and your ilk are ready to dehumanize all muslims based on the actions of the equivalent of those assholes.
> You will forgive me for not running a stopwatch every time I interact with somebody from an identifiable religious denomination.
I will not forgive you for running your mouth when you know jackshit about the topic.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 28 2016, @06:13PM
What? Show me a Christian country where people are still stoned to death? [youtube.com] Perhaps your wife's family disagree with Sharia but that would make them apostates and their fate would likely be the same as mine! This endless, multilateral, internecine war waged between the muslim sects is up to muslims to resolve. The only place we still have this sectarian bullshit between Christians in the UK is at football matches. [eveningtimes.co.uk] As a society, not only do we condemn it and view those involved as idiots but, additionally, those who fail to condemn it are likewise viewed as idiots.
What topic?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @11:09AM
Look, my half-witted freind: There might be a couple hundred Westboro freaks. Those freaks are ostracized by most of America's Christians. The smallest of Muslim sects has a following of millions.
There really aren't very many differences between on sect and another. And, all of the differences seem to center on one or another of the pedophile's perversions.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 28 2016, @03:27PM
Islam isn't the issue, its the right to believe whatever the fuck you want thats the issue. The clothing you wear, whether its a burka or nothing at all, is not "forcing your beliefs" on anyone, its better known as "freedom of expression".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 28 2016, @03:48PM
To avoid contradiction, list a single Islamic country that enjoys these freedoms.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 28 2016, @05:22PM
> To avoid contradiction, list a single Islamic country that enjoys these freedoms.
Basically all of them. The Saudis are dicks, but they don't proclaim themselves to be anything more than dicks. Being better than one of the most autocratic regimes in the world is nothing to be proud of.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 28 2016, @06:34PM
Really? [wordpress.com]
1/7 - I'm not going through them all.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Sunday August 28 2016, @07:13PM
Did I read somewhere it's illegal to be topless on a US beach?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Monday August 29 2016, @11:12AM
Another idiot. Muslims don't recognize YOUR RIGHT to believe whatever you want. Once there are enough Muslims in your country, you'll need special permission to build a church. No permission needed to build a mosque, but a church or a synagogue needs almost universal approval of the community. And, you ain't getting it.