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Muslim men pray along an a pavement by a public beach after a demonstration against modesty customs, in Lebanon's southern city of Sidon on May 21, 2023. (MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP)
May 21, 2023, 9:11 pm
Lebanese women protest modesty norms after beachgoer harassed for bathing suit
Activists gather at beach in southern city of Sidon despite ban on protest; conservative Muslims arrive to disperse demonstrators, hold prayer service
By AFP
A woman wearing a burkini at the beach in Marseille, southern France. (AP Photo)
May 26, 2022, 12:57 am
French court overturns council move to allow burkinis in city pools
Invoking country’s ‘Islamist separatism’ law, judges strike down local law enabling women to wear full-body swimwear
By AFP
Illustrative: Women, one, wearing a 'burkini,' a full-body swimsuit designed for Muslim women, walk in the water on Ghar El Melh beach near Bizerte, north-east of the capital Tunis, August 16, 2016. (AFP/FETHI BELAID)
May 16, 2022, 11:51 am
French city rekindles burkini brouhaha with pool rule change
Grenoble municipal council plans to scrap bathing suit code that bans the full-body covering that critics see as example of creeping Islamism
By Amelie HERENSTEIN and Adam PLOWRIGHT
A Tunisian woman wearing a 'burkini,' August 16, 2016. (FETHI BELAID/AFP)
June 15, 2019, 9:06 pm
German court lifts city’s ban on burkini swimsuits
Officials say garment could hide wounds or disease; judge says rules violate German constitution’s call for people to be treated equally
By Agencies
French presidential election candidates, right-wing Les Republicains (LR) party Francois Fillon, En Marche! movement Emmanuel Macron, far-left coalition La France insoumise Jean-Luc Melenchon, far-right Front National (FN) party Marine Le Pen, and left-wing French Socialist (PS) party Benoit Hamon, pose before a debate organised by the French private TV channel TF1 on March 20, 2017 in Aubervilliers, outside Paris. (AFP/Pool/Eliot Blondet)
March 24, 2017, 5:04 pm
Jews emerge as a ‘model for integration’ in French elections debate
Francois Fillon cites history of French Jewry as example of how Muslims should be integrated into French society
By JTA
Vincent Peillon (screen capture: YouTube)
December 13, 2016, 6:53 pm
French lawmaker with Jewish roots announces presidential run
Vincent Peillon receiving key endorsements in bid to succeed Francois Hollande as head of Socialist Party
By JTA and ToI Staff
French Prime minister Manuel Valls, left, and French Interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve leaving the weekly cabinet meeting at the Elysee presidential Palace in Paris, November 23, 2016. (AFP/STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN)
December 6, 2016, 12:29 pm
French premier steps down to focus on presidential election
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve appointed to lead government as PM Manuel Valls resigns
By AP
This file photo taken on July 16, 2016 shows French far-right Front National (FN) party president Marine Le Pen addressing a press conference in Nanterre, near Paris regarding the July 14 attack in Nice. (AFP/ ALAIN JOCARD)
October 16, 2016, 9:47 pm
Le Pen vows to ban kippas, all ‘religious symbols,’ in public if elected
Leader of far-Right National Front party says French people must make ‘sacrifices’ to combat Islamic extremism
By ToI Staff and AP
A Tunisian Muslim woman, right, wearing a burkini swimsuit wading in the water on a beach near Tunis, August 16, 2016. (Fethi Belaid/ AFP/Getty Images/JTA)
September 24, 2016, 4:51 am
Burkini debate in France exposes a divide in its Jewish community
Umbrella group has been uncharacteristically mum, spurring criticism from French Jews both for and against the ban
By Cnaan Liphshiz
French President Francois Hollande delivers a speech about democracy and terrorism on September 8, 2016 in Paris. (AFP PHOTO / POOL / Christophe Ena)
September 8, 2016, 4:07 pm
Hollande: France’s secular laws can accommodate Islam
French president says state allows ‘the right to believe or not to believe’ provided there is no disruption of ‘public order’
By AFP
A Tunisian woman wearing a 'burkini,' August 16, 2016. (FETHI BELAID/AFP)
September 6, 2016, 2:42 pm
French PM blasts NY Times piece on burkinis
France is proud of Muslims, but modest swimwear is ‘proselytizing,’ Valls says
By AFP
A Tunisian woman wearing a 'burkini,' August 16, 2016. (FETHI BELAID/AFP)
September 5, 2016, 10:12 pm
French Jewish leader appears to back burkini ban
Addressing outlawing of full-body swimsuit worn by Muslim women, Francis Kalifat says he favors limiting ‘political-religious’ symbols
By JTA
In this Friday, Sept. 2, 2016 photo, a Muslim woman holds her child at a beach in Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
September 4, 2016, 1:15 am
French uproar creates opportunity for Israeli burkinis
‘Finally we are the normal ones,’ chuckles one Tel Aviv-area maker of the modest swimwear briefly banned in 30 cities in France
By Daniella Cheslow
Women join a demonstration organized by "Stand up to Racism" outside the French Embassy in London on August 26, 2016 against the burkini ban on French beaches. (AFP Photo/Justin Tallis)
September 1, 2016, 8:26 pm
French city Nice ends burkini ban after defiance
Coastal town imposed the restriction on the Muslim swimwear in wake of July 14 jihadist attack that killed 86
By AFP
Liberty Leading the People, by Eugène Delacroix
August 31, 2016, 1:04 pm
Bare breasts ‘symbolize freedom,’ French PM declares in latest burkini twist
Manuel Valls rekindles Muslim clothing controversy, saying topless revolutionary icon Marianne ‘is not veiled because she is free’
By Sue Surkes
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