nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20160819-131528 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 160819s2016||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20160819-131528 doi eng 342 23 Hochmann, Thomas Author aut Islam on the Beach – The Burkini Ban in France Hochmann, Thomas Verfassungsblog 2016-08-19 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In 1964, a young woman wearing a monokini played table tennis on the Croisette, the famous road along the shore in the city of Cannes. She was sentenced for outraging public decency. Half a century later, the mayor of Cannes just banned on his beaches the burkini, a full-body swimsuit weared by some Muslim women. Some other coastal cities followed, one administrative tribunal confirmed, and a new controversy around the keyword “laïcité” was born. It seems to me that the burkini-ban is a legal error and a political mistake. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 burkini burqa freedom of religion islam laicism Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/islam-on-the-beach-the-burkini-ban-in-france/ raw object