#  French ‘Burkini’ Bans Provoke Backlash as Armed Police Confront Beachgoers - The New York Times 

 





August 27, 2016

 

 

> PARIS — Armed police surrounding Muslim women on beaches and ordering them to remove their modest clothes or leave. Calls from onlookers to “go back to where you came from.” Public humiliation and ostracism with echoes of the morals police of theocratic countries like Iran or Saudi Arabia, not a country that sees its values as a paragon of Western freedoms.

Source: *[French ‘Burkini’ Bans Provoke Backlash as Armed Police Confront Beachgoers - The New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/25/world/europe/france-burkini.html)*



 

 

 



 

 See also:- [ Discrimination/Accomodation ](/news-stories/discriminationaccomodation)
- [ Islamophobia ](/news-stories/islamophobia)
- [ Headscarf Controversies ](/news-stories/headscarf-controversies)
- [ Violence/Vandalism ](/news-stories/violencevandalism)
- [ Islam in Europe ](/news-stories/islam-europe)
- [ Islam ](/religions/islam)
- [ International ](/tags/international)
 
 

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