What is your stance on burkinis or headscarves on French (or American) beaches (or streets)?

[MADem]

104. Oh really? That's quite a user name you've got there, you hijab wearing male wabbit, you!

If you have in fact worn hijab, then you should KNOW BETTER.

Really.

The French have as a foundation of their rule of law an insistence upon secularity in public life--and that's how they like it. They believe in freedom FROM religion, not freedom OF religion. They aren't like us, they are much more monolithic a society, they prioritize their "Frenchness" and they don't particularly want their society diluted with anti-wine, anti-food, anti-lifestyle, Franglish-speaking, hijab wearing people who aren't willing to be FRENCH FIRST.

They like being FRENCH and they want to stay that way. The vast majority of the population is onboard with this view.

Since sixty percent of their population agrees with this ban, and thirty percent don't care, that leaves ten percent who don't agree with any degree of fervor. I say let democracy rule the day.

The day that women aren't forced to swaddle themselves in shame because "men can't control themselves" will be a day when I will be able to say "Some progress," but that's me....