Here’s why the ‘burkini ban’ is important, even though French secularists are bungling it so badly
by Jeanne Smits, LifeSite:
After weeks of bickering in political circles and in the media, the French Council of State — the country’s highest administrative court — issued a summary ruling that suspended one of approximately 30 municipal bans against the “burkini” garments worn by Muslim women on French beaches.
[…] Observers from foreign countries who saw shocking pictures of tear-gas armed police asking a Muslim woman to uncover her arms on a beach in the South of France will surely be relieved by the news. Many conservative and Catholic media are underscoring that the ban infringed on women’s rights to dress as they choose, all the more so when they choose modesty on French beaches where standards are notoriously lax and going topless is acceptable everywhere, even if that degree of undress has gone largely out of fashion. They’re questioning whether preventing a Muslim woman from wearing the bathing suit of her choice a sign of the dictatorship of secularism.
The burkini ban also has raised the question: Would Catholic nuns in traditional habit be banned from the beaches?
I get the point. But the problem is in fact on quite another level.
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