‘Burkini Day’ Segregated Swimming Sparks Outrage In Secular France
Posted on August 4, 2016
A women’s association in the city of Marseille, which has a large Muslim population, has caused outrage in secular France with its plans to rent a swimming pool for a day only for women, and saying they must be covered up chest to knees.
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