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    1. David Frum‏Verified account @davidfrum 25 Aug 2016

      Some thoughts on the French burkini ban …

      40 replies 21 retweets 41 likes
    2. David Frum‏Verified account @davidfrum 25 Aug 2016
      Replying to @davidfrum

      1. The burkini ban seems to me a wrongheaded solution to a genuine problem.

      13 replies 12 retweets 66 likes
    3. David Frum‏Verified account @davidfrum 25 Aug 2016
      Replying to @davidfrum

      2. The burkini ban is wrongheaded because it targets for enforcement women who may already be victims of intimidation by male relatives.

      27 replies 24 retweets 96 likes
    4. David Frum‏Verified account @davidfrum 25 Aug 2016
      Replying to @davidfrum

      3. Because it looks so overbearing and disproportionate, the ban also discredits the concerns that prompted it.

      3 replies 11 retweets 49 likes
    5. David Frum‏Verified account @davidfrum 25 Aug 2016
      Replying to @davidfrum

      4. Yet burkini itself is something more than an individual religious statement, like a cross about a neck.

      14 replies 10 retweets 41 likes
      David Frum‏Verified account @davidfrum 25 Aug 2016

      5. The people promoting the burkini do not think: “It’s just a personal preference! We’ll happily share public space with bikini-clad women"

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        2. David Frum‏Verified account @davidfrum 25 Aug 2016
          Replying to @davidfrum

          6. They are asserting a norm they would enforce on ALL women, if they had the power to do so.

          60 replies 24 retweets 81 likes
        3. Maitre Eolas‏ @Maitre_Eolas 25 Aug 2016
          Replying to @davidfrum

          You are wrong about that. The burkini is rejected by fundamentalists. For them, a woman has nothing to do at a beach.

          2 replies 6 retweets 28 likes
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        2. Elisabeth Carey, B.A., M.Sc. LSIS‏ @ElisabethCarey 25 Aug 2016
          Replying to @davidfrum

          Really? What have burkini wearers done to force other women to cover up? Details, David.

          4 replies 9 retweets 92 likes
        3. SatoshiWatoshi‏ @ANewDayInUSA 25 Aug 2016
          Replying to @ElisabethCarey @davidfrum

          stories of Muslim men screaming at and scaring other beach goers from "their" party of the beach. Google it.

          1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
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        1. baby christa‏ @christapeterso 25 Aug 2016
          Replying to @davidfrum

          This is at odds w everything actual creator has said.

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        1. baby christa‏ @christapeterso 25 Aug 2016
          Replying to @davidfrum

          These are products to enable women who *already follow these dress standards* to participate in athletics.

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        1. Alex Usher‏ @AlexUsherHESA 25 Aug 2016
          Replying to @davidfrum

          Wrong. http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/2016/08/24/french-beach-burkini-ban-creator-aheda-zanetti-comment …

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        1. Leslie F. Wolf‏ @BBW1150 25 Aug 2016
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          I know plenty of Muslims who would totally disagree. And many Muslim women wear the hijab etc. purely through their own choice.

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        1. William Pietri‏ @williampietri 25 Aug 2016
          Replying to @davidfrum

          That's incorrect. The burkini's inventor thinks exactly that, as do many who promote it: http://www.politico.eu/article/australias-lesson-in-burkini-politics-muslim-immigrants-cronulla-beach-riots-france-solution/ …

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        2. Michael Pollak‏ @mdpollak 25 Aug 2016
          Replying to @davidfrum

          Do you consider the inventor a promotor? Because then you're dead wrong: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/24/i-created-the-burkini-to-give-women-freedom-not-to-take-it-away …

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        3. Michael Pollak‏ @mdpollak 25 Aug 2016
          Replying to @mdpollak @davidfrum

          Sharing beach with bikini clad women in Australia and Lebanon was exactly her aim.

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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