News: Woman fined for wearing headscarf on Cannes beach

Idontcareaboutyou

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Woman fined for wearing headscarf on Cannes beach

A Toulouse woman says she was told to pay a fine or leave a Cannes beach for wearing a headscarf, French media reported. The city's mayor has defended the decision of police.

She said that three police officers approached her on the beach and told her she had to remove her headscarf or pay a fine.

They read her some of the text of the recently passed ban, which says anyone using the city's beaches must be wearing "correct clothing, respecting secularism, hygiene rules and security."

But Siam couldn't understand why her floral-patterned headscarf was considered as an "ostentatious" sign of religion, and says she wasn't planning to swim, so it couldn't have been due to reasons of hygiene.

However, the police reportedly ignored her protests and a crowd gathered around the family,

"Racist terms were used freely," said Siam. "I was stunned. I heard things which no one had ever said to me, like 'Go home!' and 'we're Catholics here!'"

The mayor of Cannes, David Lisnard, has supported the police officers, arguing that they were within their rights to fine anyone considered to be wearing an "ostentatious" symbol of faith, and that he had "no reason to doubt their judgment,", according to La Depeche newspaper.

The banning of the burqini, the full-body Islamic swimsuit, in Cannes and numerous other French towns, has provoked a strong reaction both within the country and worldwide.

According to AFP, the ban applies to: "Clothing showing religious faith in an ostentatious way, because France and religious sites are currently the target of terrorist attacks, is capable of creating risks to public order."

The head of municipal services for the town, Thierri Migoule, told AFP that the ban did not aim to target all signs of faith, but rather "ostentatious clothing which refers to an allegiance to terrorist movements with whom we are at war."

http://www.thelocal.fr/20160823/woma...n-cannes-beach

arkl

It's the rule. She should follow. Like how no Christians dare swim in any Islamic state wearing a bikini.

Idontcareaboutyou

The rule was about ostentatious religious symbols, including the burkini.

Is the hijab really ostentatious ?

LOUAY

I hate religion so bad.

Buyonce1814

"'we're Catholics here!" yet isn't Mary is often depicted in a headscarf in Churches/statues etc

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"My parents are French, my grandparents are French.. when they tell me to 'go home', it makes me laugh, it's racism, pure and simple."

"In the country of human rights, I don't see any trace of the principles of liberté, égalité or fraternité," said Siam.

DRAG them

Mr Martinez

Poor Neon Hitch

Opacho

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Originally posted by arkl

It's the rule. She should follow. Like how no Christians dare swim in any Islamic state wearing a bikini.

Tea

Pop

oop

i wonder what the gworls from the burqa ban thread have to say about this

Bicassie

disgusting

At people defending this.......im not shocked,tho

Karma will get them eventually with the growth of islam in the EU......rise up Islam rise this is the beginning...

LordMombi

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Originally posted by arkl

It's the rule. She should follow. Like how no Christians dare swim in any Islamic state wearing a bikini.

Tbh

heckinglovato

She didnt comply by the law. Deserved.

Mr Martinez

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Originally posted by Bicassie

disgusting

At people defending this.......im not shocked,tho

Karma will get them eventually with the growth of islam in the EU......rise up Islam rise this is the beginning...

STFU!

Skins

Take it off or leave hunty!

Badger

"Respecting secularism"

"We're Catholics here!"

Okay France

that G.U.Y.

It's the law but still sad that Europeans have such discriminatory laws

WestCoast

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Originally posted by arkl

It's the rule. She should follow. Like how no Christians dare swim in any Islamic state wearing a bikini.

Wait this tea

Inb4 people rush in here and call you Islamophobic

KillingYourCareer

I don't see anything wrong with a headscarf

HïFidelity

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Originally posted by arkl

It's the rule. She should follow. Like how no Christians dare swim in any Islamic state wearing a bikini.

I can not believe people are agreeing with this post.

Just disgusting. Although I dislike the rules in Islamic states, do we really want to start sliding back into medieval times concerning Catholic values of dress? Because this could easily turn into something against other groups a well.

I always thought we valued freedom in the West, ICE being able to dress reasonably within our own cultural norms. She said she wasn't going to swim.

Catholics and people brainwashed into thinking belittling Islamic people into their cultural norms is acceptable is starting to get out of hand. I'm not surprised that shithole of a country, France, is pioneering this mess.

LordMombi

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Originally posted by HïFidelity

I can not believe people are agreeing with this post.

Just disgusting. Although I dislike the rules in Islamic states, do we really want to start sliding back into medieval times concerning Catholic values of dress? Because this could easily turn into something against other groups a well.

I always thought we valued freedom in the West, ICE being able to dress reasonably within our own cultural norms. She said she wasn't going to swim.

Catholics and people brainwashed into thinking belittling Islamic people into their cultural norms is acceptable is starting to get out of hand. I'm not surprised that shithole of a country, France, is pioneering this mess.

Islam is medieval already.

""""The head of municipal services for the town, Thierri Migoule, told AFP that the ban did not aim to target all signs of faith, but rather "ostentatious clothing which refers to an allegiance to terrorist movements with whom we are at war." """

heckinglovato

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Originally posted by HïFidelity

I can not believe people are agreeing with this post.

Just disgusting. Although I dislike the rules in Islamic states, do we really want to start sliding back into medieval times concerning Catholic values of dress? Because this could easily turn into something against other groups a well.

I always thought we valued freedom in the West, ICE being able to dress reasonably within our own cultural norms. She said she wasn't going to swim.

Catholics and people brainwashed into thinking belittling Islamic people into their cultural norms is acceptable is starting to get out of hand. I'm not surprised that shithole of a country, France, is pioneering this mess.

Freedom has different interpretations. France's interpretation happens to be fighting religious oppression.

Beach = bikinis and shorts, not "modesty" attire.

Move on.