A Court Overturns a Burkini Ban, But Not Its Mindset

[moonshaz]

In recent weeks, the burkini, a previously obscure garment of interest only to a subset of Muslim women, has become the object of intense legal, cultural, and philosophical debate in France-and, by way of social media, around the world. On Friday, France’s Council of State, the country’s supreme administrative authority, founded by Napoleon, in

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[eveofrevolution]

[moonshaz]

I think I fixed it. (Hard to tell right now because I'm on my phone and cuts don't display in this app. I'll check and make sure when I get home.)

[eveofrevolution]

[moonshaz]

Yes, and I think it should be okay now. I have to remember to NEVER try to edit a post on the LJ Android app. I don't know why, but it screws up the formatting like WHOA.

I hope I've got everything fixed now.

[ioplokon]

Glad it was overturned, but not surprised to see cities trying to stick by the policy - this article is right to point to the increasingly toxic climate in France (which has been building for years; honestly, things have been getting worse and worse since i first started following French politics ~ a decade ago). I appreciate the way this article goes into the relationships between French colonialism & the current environment there, and also that it discusses the role laicite plays in these discussions, especially since imo it's not something people unfamiliar with France would think of (though I think it should be more strongly emphasized that, despite talking up secularism, France is still culturally very Catholic). I also think it's important to speak specifically about racism in France, rather than letting it be defined as xenophobia, but I know from experience that this is a difficult conversation to have there

[mhfromnh]

"an expression of a political project, a countersociety, based notably on the enslavement of women"

and what is it when we forbid women from wearing certain things?

[anguisel]

I had to look up what burkinis look like and...yeah are they gonna stop people in wet suits too? I mean seriously, someone should go out, one person wearing a wetsuit and the other wearing a burkini that has been styled to look like a wetsuit and film the confrontation, blast it on youtube and watch the racists' lip quiver and curse that they would have gotten away with it too if it hadn't been for those pesky kids and their mangy mutt.

Buzzfeed! You steal shit all the time from ontd and the rest of LJ! Get your France branch on this!