Posted on 01/29/2022 2:32:53 AM PST by Cronos
In contrast -- https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/stranger-asked-woman-wearing-hijab-22852362 -- in the UK, they thing it is racist to ask why someone is wearing a hijab
And in the US -- https://www.indy100.com/viral/woman-hijab-wedding-reddit-debate - a butthurt woman relates how a "friend" asked her to remove her hijab for the friends wedding as it makes the friend's future in-laws uncomfortable
Even for swimming?
Banning women's religious garb is nothing new for the French they have been doing it since the late 1700’s off and on.
“....A community of 16 Carmelite nuns from Compiègne, Mother Teresa of St Augustine and Companions, were executed on 17 July 1794 during the French Revolution.
The Sisters had refused to comply with the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, a law passed in 1790, which subordinated the Catholic Church to the revolutionary government, confiscated all Church land and banned religious orders. The Carmelites of Compiègne resisted the suppression of their monastery and so were arrested in June 1794 and imprisoned at the former Visitation convent of Compiègne, where they offered themselves daily for the peace of France and the Church. On 17 July they were tried in Paris, convicted of treason and sentenced to death by guillotine. Providentially, they were wearing their outlawed religious habits, since their only secular clothes were being washed on the day of the trial.
The Sisters were then transported in tumbrels among a group of 40 condemned prisoners to the place of execution at the Place du Trône, Paris...........”
https://www.thicketpriorycarmel.org/blessed-martyrs-of-compiegne
They’ll just quit like they did at the Olympic Games when it was an issue......
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