Islamic supremacists have little respect for rules in democratic countries, and little respect for opinions that differ from their own — including the Western value of equal rights for women. Anyone who disagrees with them is judged to be “Islamophobic.” Division and disruption results almost as a rule, as a result of the tenets of sharia being incompatible with the rights and freedoms that are taken for granted in free societies.
A public pool has now closed in Paris, after a pro-burkini protest “against the ban on the body-covering swimsuit, and demanding ‘access for all to leisure facilities.'” Back in June, “two public swimming pools in southeast France….shut down despite the current heatwave after a row over the use of full-body Islamic burkini swimsuits.” Eric Ciotti, an MP with the Republican Party, “said on Twitter the burkini has no place in France where women are equal to men.”
In an interview, minister for equality Marlène Schiappa stated:
“No-one wants to stop women in burkinis from swimming. But put simply, I believe very sincerely and very deeply that the major issue here is respect for rules … each pool has its own internal rules, it is not for me to tell pools what to do. But I am quite disturbed by the fact that these militants have succeeded in making out as though there are millions of French women demanding their right to swim in a burkini…..I am sorry, I receive hundreds of letters a day, I have worked for 15 years on the question of women’s rights, and it is not true that there are millions of women in France who wake up and thinking, “I want to go the the pool in a burkini”. These are the wishes of a minority…and we should not fall for it.
“Paris pool closes due to ‘pro-burkini’ protest,” The Connexion, September 3, 2019:
A public pool in Paris closed this weekend after pro-burkini activists mounted a protest against the ban on the body-covering swimsuit, and demanding “access for all to leisure facilities”.
Protesters gathered at the pool in the 11th arrondissement on Sunday September 1, holding a banner that read: “Pool for everyone, stop Islamophobia”, and chanting “We will swim, even if racists don’t want us to, we will swim”.
A “burkini” is a set of clothes, made out of swimming costume material, which covers the entirety of the body, except for the face, hands, and feet. It is worn by Muslim women who wish to swim and enter the water without showing their body or hair.
Five Muslim women wearing burkinis entered the pool to swim, supported by other protesters wearing one- and two-piece swimsuits. Most of the protesters were women, although some men, and some who identified as transgender, were also present.
The police were called and the pool was closed to the public for around 30 minutes as the protest was dispersed. No-one was injured and there was no violence.
In a press release, the protesters called for: “a change in internal regulations for pools, and access for all to leisure facilities”. It continued: “Our bodies belong to us, and we will cover and uncover them for our own reasons.”
One woman, who swam in a burkini, denounced “growing islamophobic ideas”, and told news network FranceInfo: “The objective is for us to access the pool as hijab-wearing women. We want to reclaim our choice to wear [the hijab], and to be able to continue our leisure activities without being inconvenienced by discriminatory regulations.”
But in an interview on news channel BMFTV, minister for equality Marlène Schiappa said: “No-one wants to stop women in burkinis from swimming. But put simply, I believe very sincerely and very deeply that the major issue here is respect for rules – it’s the same for people who throw rubbish on the ground [for example].
“If someone wants to cover their hair while swimming, which I do not disagree with, you can simply put on a swimming cap. But each pool has its own internal rules, it is not for me to tell pools what to do. But I am quite disturbed by the fact that these militants have succeeded in making out as though there are millions of French women demanding their right to swim in a burkini.
“I am sorry, I receive hundreds of letters a day, I have worked for 15 years on the question of women’s rights, and it is not true that there are millions of women in France who wake up and thinking, “I want to go the the pool in a burkini”. These are the wishes of a minority…and we should not fall for it.
“We must discriminate no-one; all women should have access to swimming pools, but if the rules say that we must come uncovered and unclothed, then we don’t go out [in the pool] wearing clothes, quite simply. We must respect the rules that exist.”…
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Spiro says
They have a minister of equality ?
If she was doing her job then Christians wouldn’t be persecuted
in Francs
Minister of equality !!!!
You all are correct France is done
Carolyne says
They likely have a Ministry of Silly Walks, too.
Gina says
That would be awesome, but since they don’t have a sense of humor, I doubt it.
Christopher Watson says
I’m sure Macron’s wife was in Fawlty Towers.
SweetOlBob says
The one in the water, who is smiling in the picture, is peeing in the pool !
The others know it and are not entering the contaminated water. HEH !
william carr says
No religion is more overburdened with rules than Islam, and so they not only do not respect the rules of other people (non Muslim) but demand that we change our rules to suit their rules. Muslims everywhere in Wesxtern coun tries eek to impose their lexicon of rules on non Muslim societies. This must not be allowed
w says
TYPO try to seek to impose
Spiro says
On second though maybe if life is so hard for these Christaphoia Muslim
maybe they could just GO home
Gina says
I agree. They don’t want to assimilate to the culture of the country – they should go to where Sharia law is practiced. But that’s not their agenda – their goal is a world under sharia. One imam said their goal is to go door-to-door throughout the world and make sure everyone is Muslim, and if not, to convert or kill everyone else. Religion of peace, my ass.
JM says
That is their aim, but I’m wondering how the door-to-door campaign will operate.
Ahmed: (rings doorbell) Good morning, madam. Are you a Muslim?
Mrs. X: No, I’m not.
Ahmed: Do you want to become a Muslim?
Mrs X: No, I don’t.
Ahmed: Well then, we’ll have to kill you. (calls his brothers)….
JM says
If only they would go home!
Jay says
France is lost!! Macron is allowing the destruction of French soverignity every day and no one seems to notice! The unfettered invasion of Muslims without any acclimation is costing taxpayer citizens millions of dollars in welfare, housing , medical not to mention demands for no go zones, and the crime and murder and rape they bring with them! Lest we forget the burning of the Notre Dame cathedral!
France is totally lost!! They apparently learned nothing from the history of WWII! Who will save them this time?? ! Those who do not study and learn from history are bound to repeat it!
joanofark06 says
France and 18 other NON muslim countries are lost! You should see what I’ve archived, since 9/11 on the islam/muslim subject. For everyone here, they might see an article here and there, about something happening in a country, but if you looked over, for example, everything muslims have done in France, you would be shocked!! Even sick. I tend not to look at them all, but just to put another article, or video, or etc etc…into the organized pile.
It’s so sad that all these 19 leaders, of these 19 non muslim countries, have allowed millions of these “people” into their borders, without knowing, or even caring, what these “people”, believe in! These were beautiful countries at one time.
Trick_or_Treat says
Don’t care what kind of swimming outfit anybody – including muslim women – want to wear in the water, they are welcome to it, that’s their own business and chioce, BUT they should never try to dictate and impose what kind of swim wear anybody else should or must wear on account of some moral code or expectation of theirs.
I’m sure many Southern Sydneysiders would say, ‘just come down to Cronulla beach again anytime you want to start trying that shit on again, and you’ll get the same thing!’
KRJ says
What’s not being said in this report is, there are STRICT HYGIENE rules in public pools in France and men for example must wear a certain type of bathing trunk, not loose shorts. These women covered in cloth are bringing filth into the pools and turning this laughably into a question of “freedom of choice” – Who are they kidding?
CogitoErgoSum says
What are the reasons for not allowing the burkini? Is there some sort of health or safety reason? Is there a danger of a hijab coming off in the pool and clogging up the drains?
Gina says
It is probably a safety issue. I was at a pool that wouldn’t allow swim masks for that reason.
Dawne Swift says
Effectively it’s swimming fully clothed which is dangerous. Also France has banned the wearing of the hijab or burka in public. The French are trying to push back against Muslim pressure, but need to keep firm.
joanofark06 says
“The French are trying to push back”….??
What I wouldn’t do to finally see some positive news in that country! Do you have a link for that news?
Joe says
I would suppose it is dirty, and it exposes other swimmers to the filth. I’m not trying to be disparaging, but these people usually don’t take baths or wash their clothes. Then they want to go swimming with all their clothes.
Herb says
They also wipe their asses with their left hand, and just use water to wash their hands. Disgusting is not half of the problem.
SweetOlBob says
I believe the women come in wearing their swimming costume and do not put it on in the premises. Therefore, they do not rinse their bodies s required of everyone else. We have no way of knowing what is lurking under there. Dirt ? Sweat ? Feminine issues ? Bugs ?
Please rinse it off first !
And encumbered like that, they don’t swim, they dunk. A hose in the yard would be more appropriate !
jayell says
They don’t have to use swimming pools at all – it’s hardly a matter of life and death. This is just yet another way these specimens have found to make total prats of themselves.
mortimer says
Burkinis are UNHYGIENIC.
Leon Degney says
Pests really, way worse than “prats” somewhere near cockroaches and or/ rats.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Rep. Ilhan Omar D-MN should pick up on this. That’d distract attention away from her legal problems, to the extent that they’ll ever see the enforcement of the law. AOC should hop on board the pro-burkini cause too, it’d enhance her credibility as a feminist activist. Fighting inequality enforced by racist bigots is a fertile field to plow.
Gina says
Unless those racist bigots are Muslim. Just sayin’
CogitoErgoSum says
I hear she is spending her spare time now collecting money to help bail out the Antifa thugs who were arrested Sunday at the Straight Pride parade in Boston. Yep, a member of the U.S. Congress is is actively supporting and giving money to Antifa – who want no border, no wall, no USA at all.
CogitoErgoSum says
This should have posted as a response to Alarmed Pig Farmer’s comment above.
gravenimage says
France: Another swimming pool closes due to pro-burkini protest
Protesters gathered at the pool in the 11th arrondissement on Sunday September 1, holding a banner that read: “Pool for everyone, stop Islamophobia”, and chanting “We will swim, even if racists don’t want us to, we will swim”.
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Actually, they were probably happier shutting down the pool so that the ‘filthy Infidels’ would not be able to swim, either.
The French are fools for caving.
CRUSADER says
What had occurred to resolve matters in 1950s and 1960s in the pluralistic USA, when blacks were starting to use public pools, and whites feared dirty water to swim in after black usage? And white folk joked that the color of the water turned dingy brown….
Dawne Swift says
That’s a nonsensical comment. All are free to swim in France, but not wearing burkinis.
CRUSADER says
Why nonsense? It’s how people legitimately view the matter.
What’s so distasteful really about the burqini in public, if they feel it makes them modest?
This objection to burqinis gives victimization voice to the Muslims…. and makes them feel unwelcome…
It can very well be a similar feeling as experienced by blacks in USA …
gravenimage says
The Burkini is not about “modesty”–it is about imposing Islamic norms.
Note that this garment is not even found in the Muslim world. The Burkini is *not* a traditional item of clothing. It was originally designed by a Muslimah in Australia, as a reaction to the Cronulla riots where Muslim men attacked Australian women wearing Western swim wear.
Dan says
Reminds me of that Second World War French joke.
FOR SALE: French rifle. Never fired. Dropped once.
And to show what you can get away with in a burka, in 2012 in Canada, an underage boy purchased alcohol in several stores, never even being asked for id.
CRUSADER says
San Francisco wants to designate NRA as a terror organization!
somehistory says
I saw that. What if all gun owners in CA leave the state? Like those working in Sweden are leaving towns brimming over with non-working moslims…too lazy, er, too “old’ to work for themselves.
CRUSADER says
Any Rand got that right…. just LEAVE !
Dan says
Heard that.
Keep it up, and soon you’ll be as “enlightened” as we Canadians about guns.
Now please excuse me.
While I go wash my mouth out with raw sewage.
gravenimage says
Using a Burqa to *buy alcohol* without an ID is actually pretty funny, in a sick sort of way…
I’m sure all the shop keepers were too concerned about charges of “Islamophobia” to ask for ID.
Lilith Wept says
This proves my point that Islam has become the unofficial, undeclared “State Religion”
No other religion gets away with what Islam does.
Islam has a special elevated and protected status. You don’t dare “offend a Moslem”!
Why? Is it fear of retaliation? That the Moslem will go all Jihad on you? Is it fear that moslems will kill you, your family or destroy your usiness?
No, it’s fear of being called an Islamophobes, or racist…or being blinded by CAIR and loosing your job, it’s fear of CAIR using lawfare to destroy your life!
Well I say I am a proud kuffar , a proud Islamophobe! And I will continue being proudly anti Islam until,I die! Because I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees , submitting to something that has caused ( and continue to cause) as much suffering, pain and death as Islam!
When we are called racist for simply asking if a politician supports sharia, we should ask “ What race is Islam! How the hell can I be called a racist for asking if a person supports sharia? Explain that to me in detail! And explain this to me without resorting to name calling and personal insults!”
God! I hate the world I’m living in….Im watching the world go down the toilet , no country is truely standing up to Islam , …..and nothing I can do or say is making the slightest difference!
gravenimage says
Yes–the dhimmitude is disgusting.
CRUSADER says
Pool protests will be popping out and around all over…
with the effect of EITHER muzzies getting their way, or
kuffar (traditional resident citizens of nonMoslem nations)
losing privileges, losing normal use of pools — in any case!
Pays to be a complainer!
The loudest one wins.
CRUSADER says
What’s a different word than KAFIR/KUFFAR ?
If we are going to use an Arabic word, anyway, in this already framed argument, to designate the nonMoslem populations, why use a term Islam inflicts?
Why not use an Arabic term for “native grown, independent minded, liberty choosing, freely worshiping person unconnected to Islam” ????
What’s the ARABESQUE for that?!?
mortimer says
‘Kafir’ is the most hate-filled word in any language. There is no replacement for this word. The word is pure slander and Muslims are shamed whenever a non-Muslim uses it, because they are exposed. That is why we should use it often … to show Muslims we realize they hate us ‘for the sake of Allah’. When we use that word, Muslims have no place to hide.
Allah hates kafirs because they worship incorrectly and he wants Muslims to hate kafirs too. Wrong worship is the greatest sin in the eyes of Allah. Muslims believe kafirs actually know Islam is true, but they ‘cover’ the truth because they are corrupt and ‘jealous’ of Muslims.
JM says
And they have so much for us to be “jealous” about (tee! hee!)
gravenimage says
Yes–Kafir means *concealer* of the truth–even for those who have never heard of Islam.
CRUSADER says
It seems that in our own use of Kuffar to describe us, we are agreeing with the muzzies…. in effect validating their use of the word upon us, about us….
Akin to the N word.
FYI says
“Sauda went out to answer a call of nature after it was made obligatory to wear the veil.Umar saw her and said “oh sauda!By allah,you cannot hide from us{i.e men},so think of a way by which you should not be recognized on going out….”
Sahih Bukhari 6:60:318
sauda is going to the Ladies,surely a restricted area.
NOT to Umar!
“Umar saw her..”:In the ladies…
Note the BULLYING and creepy STALKING of the woman:Why should she have to cover up?
“You cannot hide from us{MEN}” so “think of a way you should not be recognized on going out”:Why?
So the woman knows her place.
As for the burkini:what are they afraid of?
The Ghosts of muhammed and umar the loiterer{a man who clearly liked to hang around the ladies toilets}?
The hijab is worn in honor of allah: a god whose “prophet” said of women that they “have a deficiency of the mind” which is why the koran insists a woman’s testimony is HALF that of a man k2;282
A god who gets the anatomy* and physiology behind human reproduction wrong{see on YT “scientific mistakes in the koran”}
So that means that any reasonable educated woman today knows MORE about Biology than allah.
Just remember that: and who really has the “deficiency of mind”?
allah and muhammed.
*allah’s not great on Anatomy:he has ONE leg and TWO RIGHT HANDS apparently{sahih muslim 1827} so it isno surprise to discover that he might not know precisely the Biology behind human reproduction:after all he seems to get his own anatomy seriously wrong.
gravenimage says
Yes–peeping at a woman going to the bathroom is deeply creepy.
somehistory says
Have a door guard to the pool area, which should be surrounded by a high fence anyway…to keep small children from falling in and drowning. “Card” each person. If they are wearing unapproved attire, don’t allow them inside the fence. They can then protest outside in the hot sun, but won’t keep those in swimsuits from enjoying the pool.
Every time someone gives in to moslim demands, ti is a loss for all. it emboldens the mobsters, those using extortion to get their ugly, evil, demonic way.
In the past, I have seen people try to enter pools without the proper attire…just wearing regular clothes…and were told they couldn’t get in the poor without a swimsuit.
JM says
Good idea.
Rueben_Singh says
A couple of drops of pigs blood or pig gelatine should act as a deterrent.
moqifen says
Of course instead of moaning they could try to raise the funds from the ummah to build and run their own swimming pool, but that wouldn’t serve their purpose of imposing their beliefs on the kuffar.
DragarOz says
Quote “Five Muslim women wearing burkinis entered the pool to swim, supported by other protesters wearing one- and two-piece swimsuits. Most of the protesters were women, although some men, and some who identified as transgender, were also present.”
haha this is GOLD!!! the transgenders will see what happens under sharia law, the twits!
gravenimage says
These women in Western bathing suits are morons, and the transgendered types are even more stupid, if possible.
JM says
It will end up with not “access to all” or leisure faciltiies but with “access to none,” as there will eventually be no swimming pools to use. It is sad to see how a regressive and intolerant minority can spoil the quailityvof life for the majority. Karl Popper’s paradox of tolerance comes to mind.
Peter Dalton says
The word Islamophobia is a propaganda word with no coherent or cogent meaning in the English language. A phobia is an irrational visceral fear response to something, in my case snakes. My detestaion of the ideology of Islam and its prophet is based on my reading of the Quaran and Hadiths. If I needed any further justification then the fact that one of the greatest admirers of Islam was Adolph Hitler who regarded Islam as a kindred ideology to National Socialism. Anything Hitler found admirable cannot be good to an civilised humanbeing
Kerry Wade says
More spineless nauseating response from what should be an enforcement of the civilised values of a civilised country. Wake up France or you will become like Sweden, a cesspit of barbaric ideologies.
Angemon says
Then go cover/uncover somewhere else.
Marigold says
I heard where Muslims want women only sessions at swimming pools never mind insisting they should be able to wear bhurkinis.
Caro K says
Two issues. One, how hygenic are burkinis? That’s a whole lot of fabric to bring germs into the pool.
Two. This is a religious issue so I propose Muslimas save their money and buy their own Muslim pool, on private property.
Giacomo Latta says
Precisely. Any pool I’ve gone to has forced me to shower before entering the pool. In this burkini case they should all be hosed down with insecticide first.
Trick_or_Treat says
Pleasantly surprised that allah daddy hasn’t also decreed going for a recreational swim to be haram for women.
gravenimage says
Not really–first they will infiltrate our facilities; later they will shut them down.
James McNulty says
A Burkini is a filthy garment for any pool. Civilized people shower and shampoo before entering a public pool. This body cleansing also washes the wearers bathing suit to soap and shampoo. Muslims feel they should be exempt from this sanitary step and bathe their filthy body and garment in the pool water. .
UNCLE VLADDI says
Re: “Islamic supremacists have little respect for rules in democratic countries, and little respect for opinions that differ from their own — including the Western value of equal rights for women.” JUST CHANGE THAT TO: “Liberal supremacists (socialists, communists, fascists, in short: criminal hypocrites of all stripes) have little respect for rules in democratic countries, and little respect for opinions that differ from their own — including the Western value of equal rights for women.”