[lbo-talk] BBC | French pool bans 'burkini' swim

[// ravi]

On Aug 12, 2009, at 3:17 PM, Bill O'Connor wrote:
> // ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> writes:
>
>> This has to resonate in here:
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8197917.stm
>>
>> French officials have banned a Muslim woman from swimming in a public
>> pool while wearing a swimsuit that covers her entire body.
>
> I heard they make you swim too fast, or something.  ;)
>

Yes, that's been a controversy recently hasn't it? This whole full- 
body suit thing that supposedly gives either Phelps or his opponents  
(I forget which!) an advantage. I was just preparing a blog post that  
the loser should agitate on "hygiene" grounds given the French finding.

	--ravi