The recent terror attacks in France, has caused precautionary measures to avoid / present more attacks in the future.
One of such measures is banning the Burkini. The Burkini is a full gear swimsuit created for women who don’t want to expose their body parts for either personal or religious reasons. The Burkini has an ijab like head gear (head cover worn by Muslims) included in the three piece clothing which makes it seem more of a religious clothing.
This reason was mainly adopted after the nice attack where a man who had pledged allegiance to ISIS drove a truck through a group of Bastille Day revellers watching fireworks on the boardwalk and killed 80 people.
France’s highest administrative court has suspended “burkini bans” being enforced on the country’s beaches, labelling them “seriously, and clearly illegal”.
Three judges at the State Council examined an appeal to overturn the prohibitions by the Human Rights League (LDH) and Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF).
The initial ruling – which will be followed later by a more definitive judgement – was closely watched in France and around the world, after photos of armed police surrounding a Muslim woman as she removed her top on a beach in Nice sparked outrage this week.
French officials were championing the law as a protection of France’s secularity, a core tenet of the country’s constitution, as well as a defence against the “regressive” nature of the burka. Here’s Gérard Araud, French ambassador to the US, defending the ban.
The ban might seem a bit hateful considering the mayor who banned it is a Christian. The method used by the police to effect it, is embarrassing seeing they are asking the ladies at the beach to take it off or pay $24 fine. Their might be other ways to prevent another attach but who wants to wait long queues of stop and search before getting in to the beach. Pretty annoying right?
The original inventor of the burkini, Aheda Zanetti, has said that the furore surrounding the cover-up – which has been banned by French authorities – is “misunderstood”.
“I think it’s totally misunderstood. I feel so sorry for the people who are going to be affected by it,” Zanetti told WWD of the ban which has been implemented in up to 15 beach resorts in Nice and Cannes. “The burkini was intended to integrate and bring people together. To give them the freedom of choice to wear something modest if they choose to be modest for whatever reason they need to be modest for. It should be happy and positive. It is turning something meant to give women the freedom of participating in health and fitness into a negative thing.”
This ban has been enforced in 15 beaches, it’s really sad and demotivating for a designer’s creativity to be shoved of taken of the sales floor of a retail shop let alone banned from the society, temporarily or permanently seeing that our societies and government are supposes to encourage creativity that contributes to the economy
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Credit : www.independent.co.uk for the mayor’s words and www.vogue.co.uk for the designer’s
