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

[MADem]

142. Ah ha!!!

The picture of the nuns in gray (who are showing way more leg than you'd see in a burkini) was said to be taken by the Imam of Florence and posted on his facebook page to "prove" that there was some unfairness going on. I guess the Imam was stretching the facts to suit his narrative? NONE of these photos are contemporaneous with this YEAR, never mind this month or any month since the many attacks in France that motivated the temporary ban.

And Brazil? That's a rather Catholic nation.

I imagine if the Pope showed up in Cannes to hold mass, you'd see some nuns on the beach in that case as well--but it's plainly not a daily occurrence. I don't think they'd be stretched out on the stones, either.

Those nuns that are depicted in the French beach photo aren't sunbathers, either--they're having a walk along the shore. They're on their pins, not lounging in the sand.

Nuns at the beach (Hossegor - France). These young novices of a South Eastern French congregation - take advantage of a stay in the Landes region - to serenely gaze at the sea and stroll. Religieuses à la plage (Hossegor - France). Ces jeunes novices d'une congregation du Sud-Est de la France - profitent d'un séjour dans les Landes - pour admirer l'Océan dans la sérénité et se promener.

And of course, this picture is five years old, before Charlie Hebdo and the truck massacre, as well.


The Ukranian nun, from the photo taken back in 2008, is taking a photograph and not sunbathing (there is a fully dressed couple strolling behind her as well and the day appears somewhat overcast).

We'll have to wait, I suppose, until a nun turns up at one of the beaches to sunbathe in full habit where the ban is in effect to see if the treatment of said nun is substantially different.