Whether or not one agrees with this, the woman should have known the law, just as a bikini wearing Western woman should know an Islamic country's laws.
People are forgetting that the situation is tense in the south of France, France gnerally in fact. Only a few weeks ago a murderer with possible Islamist motives drove a lorry through a crowd of people in Nice. I don't blame the authorities for wanting to minimise overt displays of affiliation to Islam in a French seaside resort at the current time. The...
Minty...why do they have the right to dictate what women wear on beaches ?
The same dictate is not applied to men, or people of other races and religions.
Isn't it just populist pandering to the bigotry of a few ?
no Mike..not after massacre on beaches...no less than being asked to look in bags etc at airports..safety for ALL is paramount....regardless of which God one has...
What's wrong about it is I could go onto a beach in France completely covered because I'm protecting myself from the sun. No one would bat an eyelid because I'm white and don't look like a potential terrorist.
But Minty...how does banning women (only) from wearing a Burkini on the beach help to make it safer ?
If you read my other posts on this thread this morning, there are plenty of ways to take a weapon onto the beach that doesn't involve stuffing it inside Burkini !
I'm sure she was aware she was breaking the Law and was simply testing it to see what would happen. If she doesn't like the Law perhaps she should move to a Muslim Country.
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