Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister MehboobaMufti on Friday said it should be a woman’s choice whether she’s comfortable ina bikini or ‘burkini’.
The Peoples Democratic Party president was referringto a row over the use of full-body Islamic “burkini” swimsuits inFrance.
“It should be a woman’s choice whether she’scomfortable in a bikini or burkini,” Mehbooba said on Twitter while posting avideo in which a group of Muslim women defy Burkini ban in France.
It should be a woman’s choice whether she’s comfortable in a bikini or burkini. https://t.co/p3maRqsJhd
— Mehbooba Mufti (@MehboobaMufti) June 28, 2019
Terming the ban as discrimination, severalburkini-clad women, accompanied by activists from a rights group, went to the poolsin France on Sunday demanding the right to bathe – despite a municipal ban onthe swimwear worn by Muslim women.
The women want the public pools, which currentlyrequire men to wear swim briefs and women to wear bikinis or one-pieceswimsuits, to change their regulations to accommodate burkini wearers.