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Modest mantillas and bashful burqinis: same difference

30 August 2016

7:19 AM

30 August 2016

7:19 AM

New tripe on the burqini ban, this time from Jennifer Oriel:

“When the Syrian city of Manbij was liberated from Islamic State, women burned their burkas, lit up cigarettes, laughed out aloud and embraced the female soldiers who had rescued them.

“Freedom isn’t a woman encased in head to toe polyester under a burning sun because her religion deems the bikini immodest.

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