The Guardian reports:
France’s highest administrative court has suspended a ban on the burkini in a test case brought by human rights groups, pending a definitive ruling.
The ruling from the state council suspends a single ban in the southern town of Villeneuve-Loubet, near Nice, but is likely to set a precedent for other towns that have prohibited the full-body swimwear on their beaches.
Under the French legal system, temporary decisions can be handed down before the court takes more time to prepare a judgment on the underlying legality of the case.
The bans – made in the form of mayoral decrees – followed the Bastille Day attack in Nice and the murder of a priest in Normandy.
They do not explicitly use the word burkini but instead ban “beachwear which ostentatiously displays religious affiliation”, citing reasons such as the need to protect public order, hygiene or French laws on secularism.
France’s highest court suspends burkini ban in test case (The Guardian)
Previously: A Limerick A Day
Reuters
Good.
What a ridiculous ban it was.
An attack on women everywhere.
What? No it wasn’t.
Utter hyperbole.
We do need a sarcasm font, I’m sure that’s what that was.
Mine was sarcastic. I completely agree with him.
Get me out of here! :)
Rightly so. Shame on the Irish sisterhood for not supporting their French sisters. Fuque the Patriarchy is a universal goal except where the selective Irish Times Mullallly Muffia is concerned.
Can’t let the Electric Picnic Repeal crowd be distracted by real contempt for women.
Are you a Journal comment-bot?
@Rob I lol’d at that
Seriously though the burkini looks just like a normal wetsuit, they got a bee in their bonnet over nothing in Nice
Let everyone dress how they want
Id rather they targetted hipsters…
Or vegans
I think it’s disgusting that the French courts are trying to stop these women from dressing like Ninjas.
Everyone deserves the right to dress like a Ninja.
Roasting hot ninjas.
Hairy ninjas, more likely.
LOL Phelem Mooney
I’m allowed write +1 or I’m with you on that or Agree but any other opinion I have, as a woman, is not allowed as I’m on Santa’s Naughty List for over a year now. Santa, give it a rest. We will never be lovers. Get over it!
I think the ban on the burkini is just a symptom of something much wider in France. A large poor North African immigrant population combined with a series of horrific attacks has allowed front national to set the agenda now.
I personally don’t see it as being a woman’s issue mind because most who say this ban is wrong also disagree with the niqab. It is one or the other surely?
No. And don’t call me Shirley. It is quite possible to disagree with issues that appear to conflict. The compulsory wearing of an item of clothing and the compulsory not wearing of something are both wrong. Both use force of one description or another to compel a woman to conform. A women made to undress in public by a police force is very much a women’s issue. It is a violation of that woman’s person. There are no circumstances under which that is acceptable. Ever.
So you approve of a woman’s choice to wear a niqab then?
its not one or the other because life is only black and white to children and simpletons
yay They are free to not integrate into the society’s they have been allowed to settle in. BRAVO.
It cheers be up that this bothers you.
Societies. There. That wasn’t so hard, was it?
It soothes my heart. Thank you.
This is very sad. I was really liking the idea of a Police force who made everyone get their kit off.
Now lads…. the burkini for men…..
https://twitter.com/yr_ddraig/status/712695211772788736
As as we call it: Pat Hickey Dressing Gown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEB6RwgUwvA
Yeah, and so we should treat her badly now to make sure others of her kind don’t try and come here…
Did you even watch that…. all I was simply saying is there are many who have lived a Muslim life who see it has oppressive in itself, and as a tool of oppression.
This view is often over looked by ‘well meaning’ liberal left white Europeans.
Maryam Namazie, an Iranian ex-Muslim campaigner for a secular world of human rights, to put her weight in this one way, often makes that complaint too about the west…. she’s a woman worth listening to on all this. I believe so anyway.
What I don’t understand about some BS commenters is that they are in favour of womens’ rights and choices, yet, when women from all over the world choose to participate in the Rose of Tralee, those same commenters slag off the ROT and the women who participate. To what degree does a woman have a choice, and who makes the rules? Isn’t a woman’s choice her choice, regardless of whether she chooses to wear a burkini on a beach [providing she is given the option, as per this article], a termination, or a flowery dress with heels on a stage on Kerry?
Yup!
And neither of you bother to understand the nuanced arguments people have made to explain this. Go figure…
That is a fantastic comment!