pic.twitter.com/M3fef92pOr — Nazrana Yousufzai (@NazranaYusufzai) August 24, 2016Photos appearing to show French police forcing a woman on a Nice beach to remove parts of her “burkini” — a body-covering swimsuit favoured by some Muslim women — have ignited outrage over social media. Pictures published by Vantagenews and trending on social media Wednesday show a group of officers standing around a lone woman lying on the sand, wearing the head-to-toe swimwear. The series of pictures show armed cops watching as the woman removes a loose garment that covers the clothing on her head, arms and chest. “The burkini isn’t a new line of bathing suit, a style,” Valls said in an interview last week with La Provence newspaper serving the cities of southern France. An Observatory of Secularism, attached to the prime minister, was created in 2007 and discerns an annual prize.

Source: National Post August 24, 2016 15:56 UTC