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

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162. Those fleeing Britain were religious nuts

Trying out out-pure the original Puritans. They must have been insufferable.

Clearly, all this religious one-upmanship is nothing new. Personally, I would like to place as much distance between myself and organized religion as humanly possible. That being said, some woman wearing a garment she's comfortable in at a public beach while minding her own business...I don't care. It's the in-your-face types that are the problem.

And you can be sure the in-your-face types will be using this kerfuffle to their advantage. And the Islamic in-your-face types are the ones who want to kill me. They said so, and I believe them. I don't need to be told twice.

I think it's possible to hold both positions: leave women alone about their clothing. Islam in its fundamentalist iteration is oppressive and belligerent. So is Christianity. However, I am not in France, where their mileage varies considerably.