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Burka ban for Muslims enforced in Switzerland with fines of as much as £8,000 [Tessin canton]
Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | 7 July 2016 6:30AM | (Our Foreign Staff)

Posted on 07/07/2016 12:55:57 AM PDT by Olog-hai

A new burka ban has been enforced in a Swiss canton, with two people already being fined for defying it.

A Swiss woman, who has converted to Islam, and a French-Algerian businessman publicly opposed the ban in the city of Locarno in the canton of Tessin were both fined when the new rule came into effect last Friday.

Anyone caught wearing a veil in the canton, which is Italian-speaking and predominantly Roman Catholic, can reportedly be fined up to €9,200 (£7,890). …

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: burqaban; rop; switzerland; tessin
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No, it is not wearing a veil but a hijab. Catholic veils would still be permitted.

JFTR, the fine works out to $10,189 at time of writing.

1 posted on 07/07/2016 12:55:58 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I like it! The Swiss aren’t worried about political correctness.


2 posted on 07/07/2016 12:58:26 AM PDT by BlessedBeGod (To restore all things in Christ ~~~~ Appeasing evil is cowardice.)
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To: Olog-hai

Fine?

How about beheading? /s


3 posted on 07/07/2016 1:05:14 AM PDT by Ray76 (The evil effect of Obergefell is to deprive the people of rule of law & subject us to tyranny!)
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To: Olog-hai

It should be this way in all westernized countries. Maybe it would give them the nudge they need to go home; wherever that is.


4 posted on 07/07/2016 1:17:10 AM PDT by Boomer (liberalism is a mental disease with no cure but a frontal lobotomy will make them less of a jerk.)
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To: Olog-hai

Looks and sounds like people are gradually waking up to the threat of (i)slam. It starts out benign and innocently enough like a cancer cell until it keeps on growing and growing until eventually it takes over the host and kills him. If mankind is to continue on its evolutionary path, evolve and prosper (i)slam always was and will continue to be a hindrance what has been shown and proven over and over for hundreds of years, not unlike socialism or any variations of it which have failed time after time it has been tried. It all starts with good intentions and everyone means well but as the old adage goes “The road to hell has been paved with good intentions” and this is where it usually ends up.

I probably will not be around to see it, as I am getting up in years but I expect down the road the world will experience a cataclysmic event when reasonable people with enough common sense will decide that (i)slam is not getting us anywhere and with enough force and power will relegate it to the trash heap of history. Unfortunately it will not be without bloodshed along with glazed over sections in the Middle East. But as with cancer you have two choices, either excise and remove the disease or wait until it takes you over, and wipe out years of progress and advancements. There never was or ever will be a peaceful coexistence with (i)slam as its book of rules made it a point that this is not about going to happen.


5 posted on 07/07/2016 1:49:26 AM PDT by saintgermaine (The Time Traveler)
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"A Swiss woman, who has converted to Islam"

Talk about either your criminally stupid or mentally ill...

6 posted on 07/07/2016 1:51:18 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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"Nora Illi, a member of the Islamic Central Council Switzerland, purposefully defied the ban last Friday and was fined by police officers. She was stopped alongside Rachid Nekkaz, a political activist. Mr Nekkaz was fined 200 Swiss francs (£160). Ms Illi faces a fine of between 100 and 10,000 Swiss francs (£80 - £8,000), Swiss Info reported.

More than 65 per cent of voters approved the ban in a referendum in the canton in 2013."


7 posted on 07/07/2016 2:22:41 AM PDT by vannrox (The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
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To: Olog-hai

The way I see it, the wearing of a Burka is the equivalent of wearing a KKK outfit. It is a blatant statement that opposes the West and their desire to impose submission on the rest of humanity.


8 posted on 07/07/2016 2:43:30 AM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: Olog-hai

Bfl


9 posted on 07/07/2016 2:55:42 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Olog-hai

A Swiss woman, who has converted to Islam...

SHOULD BE KICKED OUT!!!


10 posted on 07/07/2016 2:59:39 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: jonrick46

Anyone caught wearing a veil in the canton, which is Italian-speaking and predominantly Roman Catholic...

What’s the all about. I didn’t know there was an Italian speaking part of Switzerland. Have to visit :)


11 posted on 07/07/2016 3:01:11 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Ray76
How about beheading? /s

I have come to the grim conclusion that the mohammedans should be given their own medicine. Tax them each to participate in their satanic rituals, deny them rights, impose harsh laws on them.

12 posted on 07/07/2016 3:01:16 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers.)
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To: BlessedBeGod
I like it! The Swiss aren’t worried about political correctness.

Notice, also, how the the money men of Zurich and the rest of strongly market savvy Switzerland are for some reason NOT in the EU.

13 posted on 07/07/2016 3:02:14 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: jonrick46

“The way I see it, the wearing of a Burka is the equivalent of wearing a KKK outfit.”

Actually, that is an insult...to the KKK! The KKK never was against everything and everybody! Islam wants to cut off the head of anyone who does not convert and when Islam runs out of Christians to kill the different sects of Islam kill each other. They not only want to destroy your life, they have no idea of how to live a life worth living even if they take over the whole world. They do not believe that life on the Earth can be worth living.


14 posted on 07/07/2016 3:39:54 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: Olog-hai

I’m an American. I personally don’t believe in running
around nine-tenths nekkid; but I don’t tell others what
to do. I prefer dresses and skirts fairly longish.

The burkas can be used for total concealment of weapons
and are HOT and not in the sexy way.

A few years ago, a young lady had been proselytized into
Mohammedanism and had a different color silk hijab for
every day of the week with matching high heels. I would
think that by now she has been graduated to wearing just
the black garbage bag burkas and serving some Muslim
man who clicks his prayer beads all day while she works.
She was featured on one of those “news” shows.


15 posted on 07/07/2016 3:56:53 AM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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16 posted on 07/07/2016 4:00:49 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: dp0622

The main languages in Switzerland are Italian, French, and German. Given those three languages (and their accompanying cultures), the Swiss are apparently quite very wary about hosting other languages and cultures.

Makes the PCs’ lectures to us about multiculturalism and tolerance look even more stupid and (also) selfish.


17 posted on 07/07/2016 4:02:18 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: BlessedBeGod

Screw PC.


18 posted on 07/07/2016 4:10:05 AM PDT by Mark17 (The love of God, how rich and pure, how measureless and strong. It shall forevermore endure.)
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To: OttawaFreeper

The Swiss know that Saudi Arabia doesn’t even allow non-Muslims into Mecca; the Swiss are moderates in comparison to muzzies...


19 posted on 07/07/2016 4:15:39 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: saintgermaine

Agree, and the sooner the process starts the better for all concerned.

Trump may well be the catalyst by which the change begins.

“When the student is ready, the teacher shall appear”


20 posted on 07/07/2016 4:21:28 AM PDT by billyboy15
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