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French far-right leader: Burkini battle not over

National Front leader Marine Le Pen said the overturning of a ban on burkinis in a French Mediterranean town is "not surprising" but the battle is not over.

 

The right-wing leader said that lawmakers must vote "as quickly as possible" on an extension of the 2004 law that banned Muslim headscarves and other ostentatious religious symbols in classrooms to include all public spaces. Le Pen, who is running for president in the 2017 race, wrote in a statement that: "The burkini would obviously be part of it." Former conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy, who announced this week he's seeking the conservative nomination for the race, similarly said at a rally Thursday night in southern France that he wants a law banning the burkini "on the entire territory of the Republic."

 

Human rights organization Amnesty International, on the other hand, praised a French court decision against bans of burkini swimsuits, calling such decrees invasive and discriminatory.

 


פרסום ראשון: 08.26.16, 17:46