history of supporting gender equality and minority rights, can publish an article that explicitly promotes the idea that burkinis/veils are empowering to women.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...y-at-the-beach
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I note The Guardian, very democratically, does not allow for comments. I presume that they are now in favour of slavery provided the slaves say how nice it is to be in chains.
While it's not possible to agree with you on most things -- despite my best efforts! -- I do agree with the burqini ban thing. Oh, I know, certain women will feel oppressed, or else not oppressed. The French authorities feel they need to justify things in these terms. To me it comes down to secular vs non-secular. If the burqini could be shown to have some secular function, then fine, keep it. But France had some pretty gnarly religious wars back in the 14th century, and therefore they're within their rights to continue to demand secularism. Religious mumbo jumbo invading the public square? Fvck all that!
Think you mean the C16th. The Reformation didn't start until 1517.
Their war of religion went from the Vassy Massacre, 1562, to the Edict of Nantes {which emancipated the Huguenots} 1598.
But this stuff, French secularism, isn't about the wars of religion, anyway. Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685. This all comes from the Revolution a century later which was about secular deists taking control from the Catholic Church.
So it's really to do with their main ting, the Revolution, which came on the back of the Enlightenment and nothing at all to do with the wars of religion in the 2nd half of the C16th.
This doesn't invalidate the point you are trying to make, but just thought you'd like to know.