(AFP) – The mayor of Cannes has banned the wearing of burkinis – full-body swimsuits – on the beaches of the French Riviera resort famous for its annual film festival, officials said on Thursday.
An event touted as a “Burkini Pool Party” in France has been cancelled after organisers claimed to have received threats including bullets that were mailed to them.
Local outrage ensued after a water park near Marseille, France, announced a Muslim-only event for Muslim women to wear their Islamic-inspired “burkini” full-body bathing suits.
A women’s association in the city of Marseille, which has a large Muslim population, has caused outrage in secular France with its plans to rent a swimming pool for a day only for women, and saying they must be covered up chest to knees.
A small town in the region of Lower Austria has announced that it will be banning the Islamic approved swimwear known as the “burkini” from local pools. The Lower Austrian township of Hainfeld has announced that they will be banning the
The stereotype of Germans’ love of bureaucracy has finally got in the way of all-embracing multiculturalism as a Bavarian pool has banned the “burkini” swimsuit on the grounds of hygiene. But not everyone is pleased with the decision. Bathers complained after
