Niqabs and Hotpants!

04Oct10

This is so great. In light of the recent burqa/niquab ban in France (which is now sweeping through the Netherlands and Belgium as well) two female students calling themselves the “NiqaBitches” decided to wear short shorts with niqabs to protest the ban and walk through Paris visiting several government buildings.

In an opinion piece published on the news website, rue89, the anonymous duo – political science and communication students in their twenties – said the film was a tongue-in-cheek way of criticising France’s niqab ban, which the Senate passed last month and is due to go into force early next year.

It has gotten considerable media attention in France but I wonder how successful it will be in getting the law overturned by France’s constitutional court. I guess we can only wait and see, and hope that France wakes up and realizes how racist, sexist and unconstitutional this ban really is.