This summer has been really warm in France but the sun is not guilty ...

in #religion8 years ago

The burkini is the new subject which ignites France . For those who don't know , the burkini is a swimsuit that some muslim women wear when they go to the beach . The word burkini is a mix a Burqa and bikini . To remind you what happened in my country in the last months :

January 7 :

The Kouachi brothers enters in the office of the newspaper Charlie hebdo and kill 12 persons . Charlie hebdo is a symbol of the freedom of speech in a france ( even if a lot of persons don't like their articles ) . Charlie hebdo had already been threatened before the attack , and even if they knew that something could happen they were not able to imagine this attack .

January 8 :

Amedy Coulibaly kills a policewoman .

January 9 :

He enters in a Kasher shop and kills 4 jewish before being killed by the police .

June 26 :

Yassin Salhi beheads his boss and tries to make an explosion in the place where he works . He does that in the name of ISIS .

August 21 :

A guy enters in a train and wants to kill everybody , fortunately he is stopped by 3 young americans on vacation .

November 13 :

Simultaneous attacks , terrorists enter in the bataclan and kill people . At the same time in Paris , a second team shoots people on the street . A third team tries to enter in the stadium of Saint Denis for a kamikaze attack , they fail and the president goes out really fast from the stadium thanks to security protocol .
At the end of the night 129 persons are dead and 352 injuried .

June 13 :

A man waits for a policeman in front of his house , he kills him and enters in the house . In front of their child he butchers the mother and broadcasts it on facebook .

July 14 :

The national day in France , a man drives a truck and crush as many persons as he can . He kills 85 persons in the name of ISIS .

It is fair to say that since the terrorist attacks in France there is a lot of tension with the religious questions . On the 13th of August , 3 muslim brothers and their wives arrive in the small beach of Sisco in Corsica . Really fast the
tension grows , the men don't want people to take pictures while their wives swim in burkini . One of the guy threathens young teenagers of the village with a big knife , one the young boys runs to the village
to call adults . 40 persons arrive and the police has a lot of difficulty to stop the riot .

On the next days , several mayors decide to forbid the burkini on their beach . That's the beggining of the burkini case in France . To understand the crisis you've got to understand that 7% of the french population is muslim , this is the highest percentage in europe , a lot of muslims are born in France and consider themselves as french ( some of them don't ) . A lot of muslim countries just like marocco or algeria were french colony , during the World War 2 those countries were forced to fight for France , years later they gained their independency ( during the algerian war for instance ) . In the 70's France needed cheap workers and called a lot of algerians , marocans and other muslim populations of africa . Those persons remained in France and made their life here . Now , the second generation , the children of those persons are born in France and live here . Most of them are muslims and now represent a part of the french identity . On the other hand the extrem right in France gain more and more power , and the burkini represents a threat for the liberties for another part of the population .

The face of France is slowly changing , what will it look like is the big question .

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You have listed a while bunch of terror attacks done by men.

And the mayors have decided to hurt the women with the burkini ban.

First of all, the type of women who wear the burkini on a public beach are not orthodox. Orthodox muslims wouldn't go to a beach where men in swimsuits were about, they'd go to a women only beach. And some of these burkini ladies just want to join in and swim but feel shy about stripping off. What is wrong with that?

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