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To the Point

Are burkinis and veils a threat to the West?

To the Point

KCRW

News

4.4583 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In France, there's a paradox: secularism is sacred. So it's no accident that the battle over body-covering burkinis started there. But the conflict is emblematic of cultural and religious challenges all over the world, including here in the United States.

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From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI Public Radio International, this is To the Point.

0:41.8

The battle over Burkini's Beyond the Beach.

0:48.0

Hello again, I'm Armin Alney, and this is To the Point.

0:52.5

The bikini was initially called provocative for showing too much of a woman's body.

0:55.8

The body covering burkini is provocative for different reasons. In France and Germany, veils are associated with terrorism, cultural change, and the

1:01.4

conflict between Western secularism and religious tolerance. But for Muslim women, it's not always a

1:06.7

question of choice. Some may want to identify with Islam. Others

1:10.9

are required to cover up

1:12.6

like it or not. Can a Muslim

1:14.6

American be a feminist

1:16.2

and cover herself at the same time?

1:18.9

We'll hear answers to that and other

1:20.3

provocative questions. Today's

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talking point, the NFL quarterback who

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