This is one of those odd stories, which you would think is fake or false, but it's true.
German pool operations can make up their own rules. For example....if they want to offer a no-clothing option one afternoon a week, they can do so. If they want to absolutely forbid pictures being taken at the pool, they can do so. So you find that pools often differ.
Up in Koblenz (in the Pfalz region), the pool management folks met and did a new rule for 2019 (back at the very beginning of outdoor pool season). The rule was.....no Burkini. The regulation basically said that regular swimming trunks, swimming shorts, bikinis, and bathing suits were OK, and later added wetsuits like you'd see in diving situations.
The Burkini? This is what Islamic women have designed over the past decade to be accepted at pools, with kids and husbands.
Right away, this got challenged in court. In the past week, the court rendered it's verdict.....you have to allow Islamic women to wear the Burkini to the pool.
Now, you'd wonder....why make a rule against the Burkini? This gets to an interesting health issue. There are people that have hygienic problems or serious health-related issues.....which the Burkini would 'hide'. Someone with serious open sores for example.....would be forbidden entry. So in some aspects, it wasn't really racist in nature.
But the court said no.....you have to allow Burkinis.
So that settles the issue? Well...not entirely. If you go across to various countries in Europe.....you find various pools which made up rules against the Burkini, and they haven't been ordered to stand down yet.
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