#  France’s ‘Burkini’ Bans Are About More Than Religion or Clothing - The New York Times 

 





August 21, 2016

 

 

> WASHINGTON — There is something inherently head-spinning about the so-called burkini bans that are popping up in coastal France. The obviousness of the contradiction — imposing rules on what women can wear on the grounds that it’s wrong for women to have to obey rules about what women can wear — makes it clear that there must be something deeper going on.

Source: *[France’s ‘Burkini’ Bans Are About More Than Religion or Clothing - The New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/19/world/europe/frances-burkini-bans-are-about-more-than-religion-or-clothing.html)*



 

 

 



 

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