Burkini-wearing Muslim women kicked out of beach in Italy
BY ANADOLU AGENCY LONDON AUG 14, 2023 – DAILY SABAH A beach in Levanto, Italy, in this undated file photo. (Getty Images, File Photo) Agroup of Muslim women wearing burkini swimsuits […]
Burkini permitted in Geneva city swimming pools
Identities Geneva’s city council has amended its regulations for public sports facilities to allow people to wear burkinis in the city’s swimming pools.This content was published on February 14, 2023 […]
France. Burka banned. Burkini banned. Condoms freely distributed.
French burkini ban upheld as Grenoble loses legal challenge By Robert Plummer BBC News France’s highest administrative court has upheld a ban on full-body “burkini” swimsuits in public pools, rejecting […]
Egypt to penalise facilities that ban entry of veiled women
Ahram Online , Wednesday 7 Sep 2022 Egypt’s Chamber of Tourism Establishments (CTE) said that tourist venues that ban the entry of veiled women will be subject to penalties that include […]
French burkini ban challenged by Grenoble in top court
By Robert PlummerBBC News Published1 hour agoShare The city of Grenoble has gone to France’s highest administrative court to challenge a ban imposed on a new city rule allowing full-body […]
Burkini: Muslim women’s harmless choice creates storm in France
BY ANADOLU AGENCY PARIS MAY 26, 2022 Members of the pro-burkini association Alliance Citoyenne watch the Municipal Council on a TV screen as members of the municipal council vote to allow […]
French city frees burkini in public pools
TRT World oSrsn6cmi2h9h2ui6gmh0t61 · The French city of Grenoble will allow burkinis in state-run swimming pools, becoming the second city to change its pool code. In 2019, the northwestern city of […]
Strategic implications of the French burkini ban
Source: Daily Sabah > By Syed Tahseen Raza, who is Assistant professor in the Department of Strategic and Security Studies, Faculty of International Studies, Aligarh Muslim University The poignantly disturbing […]
French Scared of Islam: A city shuts down public pools after two women wear burkinis
French city shuts down public pools after two women wear burkinis Source: The Guardian Despite the unprecedented heatwave sweeping across western Europe, lifeguards in Grenoble have shut down the city’s two municipal […]
Muslim women defy ban to swim in burkinis at French pool
Source: BBC Muslim women in France are disobeying the rules at a local swimming pool by wearing burkinis. In a protest inspired by US civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks, they bathed in suits covering their entire bodies – apart from the face, hands and feet – in the city of […]
Denmark’s new burqa ban also covers beards and punishes people for living in ‘ghettoes’ – this isn’t the mark of a secular society
Source: The Independent The controversy over burqas, burkinis and beards isn’t really about clothing. It’s about the fear that immigrants might retain their non-Christian identities even while living in Western […]
Muslim woman wearing burkini kicked out of pool in France, told to pay cleaning fees
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL A Muslim woman wearing a burkini who went to a community pool in Marseille, France was told to leave the pool and pay fees to clean the […]
Why exactly did Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen waste so much time talking about the burkini?
Not the EU, not the eurozone crisis, not working with Trump or handling Brexit, but two political powerhouses trading blows over a swimsuit. Is this really the pinnacle of political debate in a country on the verge of an election that could prove defining in its cultural and geopolitical future? […]
Swiss carnival group creates burkini-themed float in ‘message of hope’
The Local news@thelocal.ch 3 March 2017 burkinipayernecarnival File photo: Mohd Rasfan/AFP A group of friends participating in this weekend’s Brandons de Payerne carnival intend to wear burkinis and parade alongside […]
Ban the Burkini?
(This is one of the ten most read articles in 2016 of the Project Syndicate) https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/multiculturalism-versus-french-burkini-ban-by-peter-singer-2016-09 MELBOURNE – My parents came to Australia as refugees, fleeing Nazi persecution after Hitler annexed Austria. They arrived in a country eager to assimilate immigrants into its dominant Anglo-Irish culture. When my parents spoke […]
Germany’s top court rules Muslim schoolgirls must join swimming lessons
Reuters International DEC 7, 2016 – BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s highest court ruled on Wednesday that ultra-conservative Muslim girls must take part in mixed swimming classes at school, finding against […]
Burkini debate distant in Turkey as Islamic fashion booms
Fulya Ozerkan•September 30, 2016 View photos A model poses during a photo shoot in Istanbul (AFP Photo/Gurcan Ozturk) More Istanbul (AFP) – The model adjusts her clothing, stares at the camera with a hint of a smile, holds her head high and the photographer starts snapping. But at this photoshoot […]
To burkini or not to burkini
Source: Dawn By Aisha Sarwari, who is a freelance writer based in Islamabad. She blogs at http://www.aishasarwari.wordpress.com. She can be followed on Twitter @AishaFsarwari Remember that dream where you wake […]
France’s Burkini Bigotry
By THE EDITORIAL BOARDAUG. 18, 2016 A woman wearing a burkini, a swimsuit that leaves only the face, hands and feet exposed, as she swims at Marseille, France. CreditReuters After bans on full-face veils, head scarves in schools and rules about students’ skirt lengths, France’s perennial problem with Muslim women’s […]
German swimming pool bans the BURQINI after women complained when they saw a Muslim bather wearing one
Swimwear adhering to hijabi dresscode banned from German pool A two-piece ‘burqini’ covers the hair and arms and has long trousers A person complained at a pool in Regensburg, southeast Germany Mayor didn’t understand why she needed to cover up in front of women By Sara Malm for MailOnline Published: […]