Three women were fined for wearing burkinis at beaches in Cannes few days ago.

In the name of security and public order, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls defended Wednesday a ban on “burkinis” issued in various French seaside cities over the weekend, responding to controversy over various Muslim women being fined by police for not showing enough skin at the beach.

The swimsuit, named after the burka and bikini, has become popular among traditional Muslim women around the world.

The debate on the burkini (swimsuit for Muslim women that covers the entire body except the face, hands and feet) began earlier this month with the cancellation of a day exclusively for women at a water park near Marseille.

The town of Cannes was the first to pass the summer ban, which was confirmed by the courts on 13 August. “It is the expression of a political project, a counter-society, based notably on the enslavement of women”.

Valls said the swimwear represents a “provocation” and an “archaic vision” that women are “immodest, impure and that they should therefore be totally covered”.

“I understand the mayors who, in this moment of tension, have the reflex to look for solutions, to avoid disturbing public order”, Valls said in an interview published Wednesday by local daily La Provence.

As the Washington Post’s Kathleen Parker wrote, some “feminists and the “enlightened” French see the burkini as a visual face-slap to women’s egalité“. It can not be considered only as a question of fashion or individual liberty, ‘ Laurence Rossignol said.

Kzabri said “pro-nakedness individuals” feel embarrassed by “decent women who wear hijab and veil”.

That debate is a continuation of deep-seated discomfort in France with Muslim women’s dress that has defied simple categories of left and right, leaving Valls, a Socialist, sounding a lot like the presidential hopeful for the center-right, Mr Nicolas Sarkozy, or Mr Marine Le Pen, the leader of the extreme-right National Front. “What is more French than sitting on a beach in the sand?” she asked. “We are telling Muslims that no matter what you do. we don’t want you here”, she said.

Local mayors cite multiple reasons for their burkini bans, including the difficulty of rescuing bathers wearing a large amount of clothing. Critics say the bans are discriminatory.

Bottom line: For some, the ban on burkinis is an appropriate response to Islamic extremism and the subjugation of women associated with Islamic extremism; while for others, the bans are counterproductive measures that violate the rights of women, and only further victimizes and stigmatizes Muslims living in France.

But he also told AFP: “In France, one does not come to the beach dressed to display one’s religious convictions, especially as they are false convictions that the religion does not demand”.

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