Provocative French writer says ‘If you’re upset by burkini cop image, you’ve have been sucked in by Islamist propaganda
A different view on the pictures of a Muslim mum being forced to take her clothes off on a French beach
THEY are the pictures that whipped the world up into a righteous fury.
One shows a woman wrapped in a DIY burkini on a beach in Nice, France, surrounded and visibly interrogated by no fewer than four armed policemen.
The next shows the woman having to take off her tunic under the watchful eye of the cops, looming threateningly over her.
“Forced to strip”, went one headline, retweeted tens of thousands of times.
The chorus on social media was deafening. The poor woman only wanted a bit of sun and a swim, dressed as she pleased, and is subjected to this disgusting affront.
It has become a frequent collective howl, the outrage at secular France’s decision to ban burkinis on more than a dozen beaches to calm religious tension.