Burkinis don’t threaten our freedoms — laws that ban them do

By Indira A.R. Lakshmanan

We all know France takes female couture seriously, but its fashion police are now armed, roaming the Riviera ordering women to strip down, and issuing fines. Yes, the nation that gave us liberté, égalité, fraternité (not to mention Brigitte Bardot and the bikini) is literally policing what we wear to the beach in the wrong-headed belief that forbidding women from covering up will somehow promote secular liberalism.

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