From Al-Jazeera English
Arsalan Iftikhar (author of SCAPEGOATS: How Islamophobia Helps Our Enemies & Hurts Our Freedoms) discusses the August 2016 French ban on “burkini” swimsuits with Al-Jazeera English.
ARSALAN IFTIKHAR: “The French ‘Burkini Ban’ is a racist Islamophobic piece of legislation that is meant to target only the French Muslim community…Where do you draw the line? What’s going to happen next? Is France going to require all people to eat pork, drink alcohol and watch terrible Gerard Depardieu movies?
If the French government is going to cite ‘public concerns’ for the Burkini ban…I think that fat white men in Speedo’s is a public concern as well…The French government is turning into a secular version of the Taliban if they’re going to walk around beaches and police what people can wear- especially women…Just like the religious version of the Taliban is not very good…A secular version of the Taliban is not good either…”
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