There is something strangely odd about the British press lecturing the French about discrimination and Islamophobia, an international lawyer and political analyst says.
Barry Grossman, who is based on the Indonesian island of Bali, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Thursday while commenting on reports published in the British press slamming French municipalities which have banned full-body swimsuits known as burqinis.
“Many people are responding to this manufactured controversy by saying that when in Rome one should do as the Romans do. I would answer that absurd position by asking which ones, Roman Catholic Nuns or the others who are not quite so strict about their modesty in public?” Grossman said.
“Restrictions on stripping down involve far different considerations than restrictions on covering up, and the coercive branch of state enforcing laws which discriminate in mandating the later involve quite different issues again,”…