In the Italian city of Trieste, in northeast Italy, a ruckus broke out among Italian sunbathers and Muslims when a group of Muslim women decided to go into the water fully clothed. A true clash of cultures.
The below article by today's Il Giornale is translated by Fousesquawk.
"You don't go in the water dressed": And a quarrel breaks out on the beach.
13 August 2023- 22:19
"It's about cleanliness," complains one of the bathers. We are appealing to the "constitutional right to bathe as one pleases," someone replies.
By Federico Garau
Once again, the issue of how Muslim women dress on the beach is the center of attention. After what occurred at Montfalcone, last July, arguments continue about the proposal of the (mayor), Anna Maria Cisint, to prohibit access to the sea at the Maria Julia beach to anyone fully dressed. Now comes the most recent case in Trieste, which has unleashed fierce polemics among the bathers who were present.
What happened
The incident occurred this morning, Sunday, August 13, at the Lanterna beach of Trieste, the celebrated Pedoncin, known for the fact that it is the only (place) in Europe since 1903, in which a wall divides men from women with children.
At a certain point, a small group of Muslim women decide to go into the waters in front of the Lido. Respecting the dictates of their religion, the women, in fact, are completely dressed when they approach the edge and are about to enter the water. A scene that causes the protest of other bathers present: "Here you don't go in the water dressed," shout more than one person. The Muslims stop because of the complaints, and on the beach, someone tries to take their side.
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The bathers opposed to their entry into the water dressed are still adamant and explain the reasons for their protest. "The problem is not that they come into the water with their clothes on, but the fact that they go all around in those clothes and walk around the city, it's not hygienic," says one of those present who describes herself, simply as " a clean person."
The conflict between the parties is inevitable, and the argument ignites quickly, so much so that in order to avoid the worst, the location's security is forced to intervene. On the one side, there is talk of the obvious problem of hygiene and cleanliness, on the other, the Muslims and their supporters appeal to the "constitutional right to go in the water as they want," pointing out that there exists, "freedom of religion".
So the Muslims are asking the proprietors for guidance, trying to obtain information on the existence or otherwise in the Lido regulation of a specific rule that prohibits entering the water fully dressed. Opinions are once again divided given that, other than the separate entrance for men and women, there is no passage referring to cases of "women who want to go into the water fully dressed".
This is not an absolute novelty for the Pedoncin: A few years ago, some bathers complained about the use of burkini by some Muslim women, and the idea of prohibiting their entry to the beach on the part of the then vice mayor Roberti raised a real fuss.
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