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Originally Posted by Igottago
How can you advocate freedom and not let people wear what they want? The French are way off base on this one. Reeks of "secularism" turning into its own form of extremism. I wonder if they would take action against a nun at the beach. Somehow I doubt it.
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The ban on the burkini is misguided. But it's not necessarily the knee-jerk anti-Islamic that it's being made out to be.
The French Republic was anti-clerical right from the outset, when hundreds of priests were murdered by revolutionary mobs or fed to the guillotine. Thousands more were forced to abdicate, thrown in prison, conscripted, and forced to marry.
Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
France is a deliberately and defiantly secular state. It has always taken a very different approach to religion and it's public symbols than Canada or the U.S.