Saturday - August 15, 2009

French pool bans ‘burkini’ swim …..

It’s almost always the ‘converts’ isn’t it?  They have this overpowering need to prove something. 
Then too, some women do enjoy being dominated.  Others might not enjoy it but have grown up brainwashed to believe that’s a natural state for a female.

There are some photos on line but I couldn’t find the photo of the woman in question here. It was in the hard copy and it looked to be a black thing and nothing as colorful as the stuff found doing a goog search. The French have problems and they’re govt. is trying to address this one.  What they need to do is evict by any means necessary, the 5 million they already have.  NO, wait on that.  They might ALL come here.

French officials have banned a Muslim woman from swimming in a public pool while wearing a swimsuit that covers her entire body.

The woman had swum in July in the pool in Emerainville, east of Paris, in the “burkini” - a loose-fitting garment resembling a wetsuit with a hood.

But staff stopped her from swimming in August, citing hygiene concerns.

It comes as the government examines ways to limit burka use after the president said they reduced dignity.

France is home to Western Europe’s largest population of Muslims, with about 5 million living there.

That type of suit does not exist in the Koran

At the pool, staff “reminded [the woman] of the rules that apply in all (public) swimming pools which forbid swimming while clothed,” pool management official Daniel Guillaume was quoted by AFP as saying.

The woman was a French convert to Islam, and had bought the swimsuit in Dubai so that she would not have to uncover herself to go swimming.

“Quite simply, this is segregation,” she said, according to Le Parisien newspaper, which identified her only as Carole.

“I will fight to try to change things. And if I see that the battle is lost, I cannot rule out leaving France.”

Emerainville Mayor Alain Kelyor said “all this has nothing to do with Islam”, adding that the swimsuit was “not an Islamic swimsuit” and that “that type of suit does not exist in the Koran”.

‘Prisoners behind netting’

In June the French National Assembly appointed 32 MPs to a six-month fact-finding mission to look at ways of restricting burka use.

In a major policy speech that month, President Nicolas Sarkozy said the burka - a garment covering women from head to toe - reduced them to servitude and undermined their dignity.

“We cannot accept to have in our country women who are prisoners behind netting, cut off from all social life, deprived of identity,” Mr Sarkozy told a special session of parliament in Versailles.

In 2004, France banned the Islamic headscarves in its state schools.

SOURCE IS BBC NEWS

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