French mayors who banned burkini to defy court ruling against them

[Roger Waters]

you have to be retarded to punish people for covering up rather than stripping down

[ImCrimson]

[QUOTE=El Burro;50968073]Don't these Mayor have real problems to deal with? Or do they genuinely feel that banning Muslims from wearing certain clothing is somehow striking at the very heart of Islamic extremism?
"I know I said I'd go shoot up a random Parisien street today, but I had to trade all my terrorist stuff for two weeks on the Costa Del Sol so my wife can visit a beach legally"[/QUOTE]

Part of it is pandering to islamophobia among conservatives, but I believe it's also related to the typically-western mindset that a single object, symbol or individual is somehow the key responsible for a set of issues, and that its removal or liquidation will somehow make everything good again. Be it a piece of clothing, an evil individual, a book, a company, a particular pollutant, you name it; we suddenly get tunnel vision when we're looking for solutions to problems.

In this case some people think that banning a piece of clothing will end religious oppression of females, ignoring that some are wearing it willingly and those who aren't will still face oppression in other ways.

[Maadz]

[QUOTE=archangel125;50968424]Not to be offensive or anything, but coming from someone who lives in a country that is extremely intolerant of other cultures and religions to the point that apostasy is punishable by sentences including flaying and death by beheading, your comment, or at least the sentiment behind it, strikes me as rather strange.

I lived in KSA for six years (as my father worked for the Riyadh Daily), and I don't miss its barbarity. Not that I wish to paint you with the same brush if you don't share the beliefs of the institution. Merely pointing that out.[/QUOTE]

riyadh and jeddah are two different things as im sure you know if you lived here, and afaik death by beheading for apostasy hasnt happened for a while now, its mostly drug dealers