French Mayor: 'Go Naked in Saudi Arabia!'
Kamis, 01 September 2016 - 13:25 WIB
French Mayor: 'Go Naked in Saudi Arabia!'
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PARIS - A right wing French mayor has vowed to continue with the burkini ban despite France's top court ruling the restriction is illegal.
Mayor of Cogolin, Marc Etienne Lansade claimed people should live according to the local customs and traditions of the country they are in.
"If you don't want to live the way we do, don't come,' as he vowed to ignore the court ruling outlawing the burkini ban," mayor has told Muslims.
A court has ruled there is no legal basis for the ban because there is no proven risk between the burkini and public order, hygiene or public decency which could justify the restriction
"You have to behave in the way that people behave in the country that accepted you, and that is it. If you are accepted in Rome -- do like Romans do. Go in Saudi Arabia and be naked and see what will happen to you," he speaking to CNN.
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A court in Nice has ruled that a burkini ban in Cannes is also against the law. The court claimed because there were no proven risks of disruption to public order, or reasons of hygiene or decency for the ban.
After the Council of State overturned that ban last week, human rights groups said they will challenge similar bans issued in 30 or so municipalities. More rulings are expected in the next few days as local courts are hearing other contested town decrees.
The last Nice ruling is a largely symbolic victory for the two human rights groups that introduced the challenge, since the Cannes ban, issued late last month, was expected to end on Wednesday night anyway. But it sends a signal to several mayors who have said they won't revoke their bans even after the top court's legal precedent.
Meanwhile, the national debate on the place of Islam in the strictly secular country continued. Prime Minister Manual Valls, who supported the bans, made a new reference to the burkini controversy with a comment on Marianne, an allegorical figure of the French Republic.
Valls said during a socialist meeting in southern France Thursday night that 'Marianne, the symbol of the Republic, is bare breast because she's feeding the people, she doesn't wear a veil because she's free.'
The comment immediately triggered countless reactions on social networks. Mathilde Larrere, a historian specialized in the French Revolution, derided Valls in a series of tweets that have since gone viral, telling him: 'Marianne is bare breast because it's an allegory, moron!'
The expert wrote that Marianne has nothing to do with being a symbol of women or feminism, but instead 'her bare breast is modeled on allegories from the Antiquity, notably the allegory of liberty'.
Mayor of Cogolin, Marc Etienne Lansade claimed people should live according to the local customs and traditions of the country they are in.
"If you don't want to live the way we do, don't come,' as he vowed to ignore the court ruling outlawing the burkini ban," mayor has told Muslims.
A court has ruled there is no legal basis for the ban because there is no proven risk between the burkini and public order, hygiene or public decency which could justify the restriction
"You have to behave in the way that people behave in the country that accepted you, and that is it. If you are accepted in Rome -- do like Romans do. Go in Saudi Arabia and be naked and see what will happen to you," he speaking to CNN.
A court in Nice has ruled that a burkini ban in Cannes is also against the law. The court claimed because there were no proven risks of disruption to public order, or reasons of hygiene or decency for the ban.
After the Council of State overturned that ban last week, human rights groups said they will challenge similar bans issued in 30 or so municipalities. More rulings are expected in the next few days as local courts are hearing other contested town decrees.
The last Nice ruling is a largely symbolic victory for the two human rights groups that introduced the challenge, since the Cannes ban, issued late last month, was expected to end on Wednesday night anyway. But it sends a signal to several mayors who have said they won't revoke their bans even after the top court's legal precedent.
Meanwhile, the national debate on the place of Islam in the strictly secular country continued. Prime Minister Manual Valls, who supported the bans, made a new reference to the burkini controversy with a comment on Marianne, an allegorical figure of the French Republic.
Valls said during a socialist meeting in southern France Thursday night that 'Marianne, the symbol of the Republic, is bare breast because she's feeding the people, she doesn't wear a veil because she's free.'
The comment immediately triggered countless reactions on social networks. Mathilde Larrere, a historian specialized in the French Revolution, derided Valls in a series of tweets that have since gone viral, telling him: 'Marianne is bare breast because it's an allegory, moron!'
The expert wrote that Marianne has nothing to do with being a symbol of women or feminism, but instead 'her bare breast is modeled on allegories from the Antiquity, notably the allegory of liberty'.
(rnz)
