A Court Overturns a Burkini Ban, but Not Its Mindset

In recent weeks, the burkini, a previously obscure garment of interest only to a subset of Muslim women, has become the object of intense legal, cultural, and philosophical debate in France—and, by way of social media, around the world. On Friday, France’s Council of State, the country’s supreme administrative authority, founded by Napoleon, in 1799, weighed in, decisively overturning a law in one of more than a dozen coastal towns that have forbidden women from wearing the full-body suit on beaches this summer. The burkini looks something like a wetsuit with a short tunic on top and provides the cover some Muslim women prefer when swimming in public. The court ruled that the ban “seriously, and clearly illegally, breached the fundamental freedoms to come and go, the freedom of beliefs and individual freedom.” The controversy, however, is unlikely to end here.

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