The Muslim dating app “Muzz” has offered to pay fines for wearing burkinis. The idea is to achieve by provocation or by creating the conditions for a violent confrontation what the rule of law forbids, argues essayist Céline Pina.
The ban on the burqini or bathing burqa in swimming pools was considered a defeat by the Islamists, who tend towards the Muslim Brotherhood, as they tried, with the help of associations, to impose this garment, which was supposed to mark civilisational separatism, even in places of leisure. Since, for the Islamists, respect for the law does not count, when the struggle is lost in the realm of legality, it is shifted back to the streets and the calls to disobey the rules continue. The idea is to achieve by provocation, tension or by creating the conditions for violence what the rule of law forbids. Hence the proposal by Muzz, a UK-based dating site, to take over the fines of those who refuse to abide by French law: “Muslim sisters, it’s hot outside, go for a swim. Don’t worry, Muzz will reimburse you if you get fined for wearing a burkini”.
This marketing campaign caused quite a stir in the networks. The hashtag #freetheburkini quickly became a trend. So the search for buzz worked well and fulfilled its function as an identity-creating call to order and victim-oriented lament. To justify its positioning, the website seizes on Islamist rhetoric, declaring that Muslim women are “condemned to an unfair choice – escape the heatwave by swimming in a bikini or pay a fine for choosing a plain outfit”. This is how Islamists portray the ban on full-face veils on the beach, when one is forced to dress like an immoral “whore” because one cannot wear shameful clothing.
Not all who wear a headscarf are aware of it, but they participate, even if they do not want to, in the rejection of equality.Le Figaro