I Know This Comes From The Daily Mail But..

[237SJ]

How ridiculous http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3744907/Ten-women-forced-Cannes-beach-fined-wearing-burkinis-Islamic-swimsuits-banned-French-town-s-mayor.html

[Lynn_M]

Yes, those garments are ridiculous and like the article says, they're incompatible with the values of France, or Europe for that matter

It's nice to see that France has finally grown a bit of backbone, though ultimately, like the rest of Europe, they need to completely rid themselves of this incompatible culture

[Mamyalynne]

Why is anyone so mithered about what anyone else wears or wishes to bare.

[Lynn_M]

Indeed, Mamyalynne, re that woman and her daughters who got stabbed by a Muslim invader because they were wearing bikinis

[ummmm]

I don't see an issue with them. parents put their kids in outfits very similar.

[Mamyalynne]

Within common decency, all should be allowed to wear what they wish.


Not sure which case you refer to Lynn without a link but no excuse for anyone to attack another in terms of dress.

[Old_Geezer]

This issue is, as it always was, whether the teaching that folk need to cover up should be tackled in whatever way helps them, takes priority over a person's right to wear whatever decent garment they wish, or vice versa.

In an idea world wearing these things are not an issue. In a world where folk are taught they must wear this amount of covering, it is a bit different.

I could be persuaded otherwise, but I think I'd come down on this being a bit far at present. Telling folk they must show more skin than they feel comfortable with on the beach. It's not like the extreme position of the burka where one is almost hidden completely; tackle that and hope the rest follows voluntarily in due course.

[douglas9401]

I suppose that wearing loose fitting t-shirts, long trousers and a hat is out of the question.
The clothing is banned, modesty can be preserved while wearing something more in keeping with surroundings.
French laws apply in France, get over it.

[dannyk13]

///'incompatible with the values of France and the Republic'///
So in future all holiday - makers etc will have to behave as the French do?

[andy-hughes]

Lynn_M - //Yes, those garments are ridiculous and like the article says, they're incompatible with the values of France, or Europe for that matter

It's nice to see that France has finally grown a bit of backbone, though ultimately, like the rest of Europe, they need to completely rid themselves of this incompatible culture //

The notion of what is acceptable, or indeed 'compatible' I terms of what terms of what should be worn on a beach has to be a personal choice.

I would like to ban fat people with tattoos and sunburn from the beach, but that would make me priggish, superior, snobbish and utterly unreasonable, and quite rightly so.

I accept that not everyone on the beach is going to look like a contestant from 'Love Island', but that does not give me the right to discriminate against them.

If these ladies choose to cover up, for whatever reason, social, religious, health, personal preference, then that should be their right, and the notion of official intervention is high-handed and inappropriate.

[naomi24]

Good for the authorities. If these ladies choose to cover up they can do it in other ways. They don’t need to employ religious symbolism.

[Islay]

So wrong to ban these - I wear something very similar when I swim - does that mean I won't be able to swim in France anymore?

[douglas9401]

I think that's what it means, Islay.

[anneasquith]

Can't even wear swimwear of your choice to the beach. Ridiculous .

[naomi24]

No doubt Islay could wear a wetsuit. The diving fraternity is international.

[Islay]

Naomi your wit is outstanding!!

It is wrong to ban these swimsuits I hope it is challenged. I am wearing a similar out at the swimming pool in America it will interesting to see the reaction.

[naomi24]

Islay, I wasn't trying to be witty. I'm serious. A wetsuit is a good alternative, isn't it?

[Islay]

//Islay, I wasn't trying to be witty//

Really then you should consider an alternative career on the stage!

I would not wear a wetsuit as they are too tight I like the birkini's as they don't show every lump and bump!

[mikey4444]

This new French law is daft ....what possible difference does it make what people wear on the beach, as long as its decent ?

Do the people of Nice really feel any safer because they are forcing some Muslim women to wear clothes that they are not happy with ?

[ludwig]

I think the authorities in Cannes are sensitive to the fact that a terrorist
recently drove a lorry through a crowd of people along the coast in Nice.

Banning this garment is probably more to do with keeping the peace in the current climate than anything. France has suffered alot of Islamist murder attacks lately, and I should think tensions are understandably high.

[hc4361]

Telling a woman she CANNOT wear a particular garment is as bad as telling she MUST.