STUART VARNEY (GUEST HOST): How is this for not being politically correct, three more towns in France banning the Burkini. France's Prime Minister supporting these towns, he says the full-body swimsuit for Muslim women goes against French values. Louise, do you think the French are doing the right thing banning the Burkini?
LOUISE MENSCH: Stu, I really do. I think the bikini and the burqa and the full face niqab are grossly offensive garments that say terrible things about women's bodies. They say that a woman's ordinary body is immodest, I think it's basically hate speech in a piece of clothing. Would you allow somebody to go out into the streets and wear a big t-shirt saying “I hate Muslims?” When you wear those clothes, you're saying “I hate women,” and it's that attitude that leads to honor killings of women. I'm glad France is doing this.
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MENSCH: I think you should exclude these kind of extremist garments from French culture, they go against French laws of secularism, which, by the way, apply in France to all religions. Furthermore, you don't need to wear this shroud to go swimming, and you can smuggle weapons.
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MENSCH: We saw it causing riots. Why were there riots? It's because Muslims objected to somebody taking a photograph of this woman in this offensive garment. If she dishes out offensive speech in her clothing, she has to take it.
