Source: Independent
It is a French woman’s duty to wear a bikini on a beach, says the former minister for families, Nadine Morano.
Ms Morano, 51, has provoked a political row by complaining that she had seen a Muslim woman sitting on a French beach in headscarf, long-sleeved tunic and trousers while her husband stripped off and bathed in the sea.
“When you choose to come to a country of secular laws like France, you have an obligation to respect our culture and the liberty of women. Or you go somewhere else,” Ms Morano wrote on her Facebook page.
She published a blurred picture that she had taken at the weekend of the woman in the headscarf sitting on a beach. Alongside, she published a photograph of the 1950s and 1960s sex symbol Brigitte Bardot wearing a bikini.
Ms Morano is a centre-right politician, and fervent supporter of ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy, who has been accused of exploiting far-right themes in the past. Her remarks provoked an avalanche of comments on social media and reactions from politicians which sometimes crossed normal party boundaries.
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Which is more oppressive: hijab or bikinis?
From men’s point of view: Only French women of Brigitte Bardot’s calibre should be permitted to wear a bikini.
http://www.themuslimtimes.org/2014/08/countries/france/reply-to-nadine-morano-its-a-french-womans-duty-to-wear-a-bikini-says-ex-minister-french
What is the matter with these people? I thought they believed in ‘freedom’ of everything which to me translates that if one prefers to cover up they should be free to do this just like those who want to roam around naked or nearly so, would also be at complete liberty to do so.
Rafiq: Perhaps your comment was meant as a joke, but either way, it is sexist.
The French Minister would also need to burn all pictures of Mother Mary with a Hijab to “purify” France:
Funny how European Christians depict Jesus a.s. and his pious mother as blue eyed Caucasians
Women with hijab look more beautiful and more modest, don’t they? For many people, the hijab is a symbol of oppression and divisiveness. It’s a visible target that often bears the brunt of a larger debate about Islam in the West. There is a great misconception that Muslim women are enslaved by a piece of fabric. I used to be of the so called ‘free’ women before I became a Muslim and worked in the rag industry I saw first hand the dictatorship the fashion industry. But you don’t have to work in it to see it either, everyday women are being told ‘how’ they should look, ‘how’ they should dress, and ‘how’ to behave depending what is in fashion that year….otherwise you don’t fit in (hence the term slave to fashion). The media and society create delusions and unnecessary anxieties about their bodies eg. Large booties one year no bootie the next likewise busts, waist lines, Botox, eyelifts, plump lips show cleavage or legs and the list goes on and on.
The reason women choose to wear it is to hide their beauty, men grovel at the site of a women in a bikini. tell me which one will make you want to stare at her and for what reason would you be starring. You say a women is free to be so uncovered because its normal, or have you no noticed it is what society says is “normal” when a women covers it is for protection against men who cannot control themselves. It is our gift to men especially our husbands who are the only ones who get to enjoy our beauty instead of sharing it with non deserving perverts. A believing Muslim women would never remove her covering only to please the likes of ignorant people like yourself, it defeats the purpose of covering in the first place. You will never see a Muslim women being used like a prop made to stand next to cars to make the car more buyable.
Muslim women don’t have that pressure we are at peace with ourselves the way Allah created us. So we can make the same argument that non-Muslim women are enslaved by society, media the magazines, consumerism, fashion, by men who want us to look a certain way and by women themselves who over the years have been brainwashed into thinking the more they show the more respect they get and they would be happier looking like ‘xyz’. Instead it has created eating disorders, and mental anguish about their appearance. When talking to a Muslim woman you are forced to judge them on what they are speaking about and not what they are wearing or not wearing or showing. In saying this Muslim women do glam up to the hilt for their husbands, family and amongst female company ….but not in public. This is a commandment of Allah who is our creator and knows us best; those who don’t wear hijab are commanded by man.
IA
http://www.londonschoolofislamics.org.uk
In that case, may be they need to uncover statues of Mary all over France or wrap her not to show her scarf!!
Iftikhar Ahmed: Your comment fails to address the problem – that being the attitudes of some men (note ‘some’).
Women shouldn’t have to resort to covering themselves “for protection against men who cannot control themselves”. Why should they? The problem is some men, and that is what we should be fixing.
Can you imagine saying to someone, “If you don’t want to be racially harassed, you should cover up so racists can’t see your skin colour and harass you”. Telling women to cover up so that some men don’t give them a hard time is the same thing. And by the way, 99.3% of women in Egypt claim to have been sexually harassed, despite the fact many dress in a very conservative way.
The vast majority of men can and do control themselves – to suggest otherwise is an insult to all the men out there. Those that can’t should be locked up, and those that don’t respect women as equals have been failed by their parents – brought up to see women as sexual objects for their gratification. Covering up in an extreme way just perpetuates that attitude, takes the responsibility away from the men, and puts it on the woman.
Women should be able to wear whatever they want – be it a burqa or a bikini – and be respected as a person and an equal. If parents aren’t drilling that in to their children, particularly their sons, we will continue to have problems.
According to modern science it is extremely detrimental to health to expose one’s skin to the sun for more than 10-15 mins. Besides permanent skin damage, it can cause skin cancer.
Would the former Minister for Families be satisfied if women enjoying the beach in full clothing said they were doing it to protect their skin and looking “sexy” for the long haul?
How irresponsible for a minister for “Families” to promote such a dangerous practice, simply because she resents the faith of hijab-clad women!