Posted on 04/21/2010 4:55:12 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
The French government is drawing up a law to ban Muslim women from wearing a full-face veil in public, despite advice that it could be illegal.
The new law will stop the niqab and the burka from being worn in the streets, shops and markets and not just in public buildings.
Nicolas Sarkozy is to press ahead with the bill claiming that the veil is an "assault on women's dignity".
"We're legislating for the future. Wearing a full veil is a sign of a community closing in on itself and of a rejection of our values," Luc Chatel, a spokesman for Mr Sarkozy, on leaving a cabinet meeting led by the President.
Last month, the State Council – France's top administrative authority – warned Mr Sarkozy against a full ban on the veil, suggesting instead an order that women uncover their faces for identity checks or for state business.
It suggested a full ban could be declared unconstitutional and overturned in court.
However, there remains broad support in parliament for such a ban and the government is determined to press on with a law, which it says would affect only around 2,000 Muslim French women who currently cover their faces.
Most Muslim women, in France's immigrant communities and around the world, do not wear a full veil, but the niqab, which covers the face apart from the eyes, is widely worn on the Arabian peninsula and in the Gulf states.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
National security, with men now wearing the full face veil for terrorist attacks -am all for it.
I wouldn’t put it past the muzzies to murder Sarkozy......
ABOUT TIME!
Finally they are realizing that they can make their OWN LAWS in their OWN COUNTRY and do not have to BEND to every minority DEMAND!
GOOD FOR THEM!!!!
ABOUT TIME!
It’s too late to save France from Islamicization. Hope it’s not too late for US, but with Hussein in power...
It’s a sad day when France has more balls than the United States. Who’da thunk?
We’re still TOO STUPID to realize that the veil essentially represents SLAVERY to their women...otherwise we might think of banning it too.
Just too hard to understand over here, I guess.
FR Flashback: “Arab conned into marrying bearded lady”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2448993/posts
bttt -- even if physically your post already is that.
This should give the muzzie ‘youts’, something to riot about this summer. Too little, too late Francoise.
‘FR Flashback: “Arab conned into marrying bearded lady”’
That certainly can’t happen at an Orthodox Jewish wedding because the groom at a certain point in the marriage ceremony lifts the veil of the bride to make sure it is not some one else.
This is a messed up world.
The Veil Controversy: International Perspectives on Religion in Public Life, Monday, April 19, 2004, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
http://pewforum.org/events/?EventID=55
Washington, D.C.
Excerpt:"The state is supposed to protect the citizen against religious groups, and there's also a point to be made about religious cults. You know that one of the big issues in French-U.S. differences and a big fight between France and the U.S. is this fight against religious cults and against the Religious Freedom Act that was passed by the U.S. Congress in 1998. And it's exactly the same problems, and it reveals the same difference of conception of the place of church in the society."
is not a religious freedom/practice.... see my above post.
Moi aussi! “Bout damn time the Frenchies stood up for what’s left of their country.
The French, like the Danes, have not always been wimps, there was a time when they were greatly to be feared. Maybe they will yet remember who they are.
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