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#bukini isn’t really about swimwear - it is not even primarily about protecting Muslim women from patriarchy... This is about protecting France’s non-Muslim majority from having to confront a changing world: one that requires them to widen their sense of identity.

“#Colonialism set #France up for the identity crisis it is experiencing today by ingraining a sense of French national identity as distinct from and superior to Muslim identity”

►http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/19/world/europe/frances-burkini-bans-are-about-more-than-religion-or-clothing.html #colonialisme #identité via @le_bougnoulosophe

France’s ‘Burkini’ Bans Are About More Than Religion or Clothing | Amanda Taub
►http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/19/world/europe/frances-burkini-bans-are-about-more-than-religion-or-clothing.html

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: The New York Times