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Scared? Make women disrobe.

The article discusses the response in France to the terrorist attack in Nice, France on Bastille Day in July 2016 of banning the burkini for Muslim women and strip-search Islamic militant suspects. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy's perspective on banning several items of Muslim women's cloth...

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Published in:Economist Vol. 420; no. 9005; p. 12
Format: Article
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited 9/3/2016
Subjects:
France
Sarkozy, Nicolas, 1955-
Terrorism
Social conditions of Muslim women
Muslims
Government policy
Social history
Strip searches
Muslim women's clothing
Burkinis
French Muslims
Twenty-first century
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article discusses the response in France to the terrorist attack in Nice, France on Bastille Day in July 2016 of banning the burkini for Muslim women and strip-search Islamic militant suspects. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy's perspective on banning several items of Muslim women's clothing, including wearing headscarves in public, is discussed.