French Prime Minister Manuel Valls delivers a speech during a meeting with Socialist Party members in Colomiers on Monday. Even after a top court suspended local bans on the burkini, Valls doubled down in defense of the bans, despite the disagreement of other center-left ministers in the government. That is the republic!”But many French historians, as the Guardian newspaper noted, were quick to poke holes in the prime minister's rhetoric. Most of the artistic representations of her show her fully robed, not topless as in the Delacroix painting. More on WorldViewsIn the age of Trump, being Muslim is a political actAs France bans burkinis, Canada and Scotland let cops wear hijabs

Source: Washington Post August 30, 2016 16:52 UTC