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Government backs veil ban (Denmark -- way to go)
Copenhagen Post ^ | 03.05.2007

Posted on 05/09/2007 1:55:45 PM PDT by Uncledave

Government backs veil ban

A majority of parliament is ready if necessary to ban face-covering Muslim niqab veils after a family care worker refused to remove hers on the job

Politicians at parliament are prepared to give employers the right to ban Muslim niqab and burka veils for employees as a result of yet another incident involving the culture clash between conservative Islam and the West.

Odense municipality requested that the Ministry of Consumer and Family Affairs rule on a case where a Muslim woman refused to remove her veil for her job as a family care worker. Odense indicated it was not certain whether it had the authority to reject the woman as a legitimate caretaker on the grounds of her veil under the existing provisions.

Politicians had already been in an uproar over an incident last week where a Muslim parliamentary candidate indicated she would continue to wear her headscarf if she were elected. The niqab covers all of the wearer's face except the eyes.

Carina Christensen, the Conservative family affairs minister, indicated she would not get involved in the case, which angered many parliamentary members. Conservative leader Bendt Bendtsen made it clear that his party would not accept family care employees hiding their faces from their charges.

'We say no to burkas and veils in family care. Care workers are role models and accordingly must promote a proper image of women,' Bendtsen told Jyllands-Posten newspaper.

Bendtsen has the backing of the prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who believes public institutions should be able to determine the dress of their employees.

'The burka does not belong in family day care nor in public care institutions,' Rasmussen told Politiken newspaper. 'We will naturally ensure that there are provisions in the law that allows Odense municipality to forbid the veil.'

'I personally believe it's quite fair that children should be able to see who is caring for them,' said the prime minister.

The far-left Red-Green Alliance also understood the need to have strict regulations in the matter, but did not commit to supporting any change in the law.

'This is neither about special treatment or religion. It is a well-founded desire to stress that it is important in family care situations to see the caretaker's facial expressions,' said Jørgen Arbo-Baehr, the party's integration spokesperson.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: denmark; eu; eurabia; europe; muslims; scandinavia; veils

1 posted on 05/09/2007 1:55:48 PM PDT by Uncledave
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To: Uncledave

Denmark is TRULY the mouse that roared.

By the way, its time for me to take out the Danish Flag I bought when they ran those cartoons about the pedophile Mohammad. Its time to run it up the flagpole again while I eat some good Danish Cheese and HAM!!!!!!


2 posted on 05/09/2007 1:58:51 PM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: Uncledave
Masked muslims can be a threat?
3 posted on 05/09/2007 2:04:36 PM PDT by kinoxi
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To: Uncledave
Politicians at parliament are prepared to give employers the right to ban Muslim niqab and burka veils for employees as a result of yet another incident involving the culture clash between conservative radical Islam and the West.

Had to fix this. Have you noticed more and more the MSM is using the term conservative Islam?

4 posted on 05/09/2007 2:24:26 PM PDT by rocksblues (Do unto others as they do unto you!)
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To: ZULU

So I take it you feel the veil should be banned here too?


5 posted on 05/09/2007 2:55:13 PM PDT by DB
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To: kinoxi

“Masked muslims can be a threat?”

From the looks of the news, they seem to be proliferating.


6 posted on 05/09/2007 3:04:02 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Our first responsibility is to keep the power of the Presidency out of the hands of the Clintons.)
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To: kinoxi

Yes, masked moslems can be a threat. How would anyone know that it was a woman, under the burka and veil? How would anyone know if there were arms or a suicide bomb under the veil?

Furthermore, it is a degrading symbol to European women. If moslems don’t like that, they can stay at home and not work or return to live in the middle east where such sharia law is the cultural norm.


7 posted on 05/09/2007 3:09:31 PM PDT by Judith Anne (Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
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To: Uncledave

‘We say no to burkas and veils in family care.

.....Care workers are role models and accordingly must promote a proper image of women,’....

Bendtsen told Jyllands-Posten newspaper.

Sweet

W


8 posted on 05/09/2007 3:16:33 PM PDT by WLR
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To: DB

Yeah. Ban the veil and all those Muhammadans too while we are at it.


9 posted on 05/09/2007 6:31:13 PM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: WLR
It seems as though quite a few countries now are being inundated with demands from a culture who will not assimilate, will not contribute, will not speak out against Islamic terrorism, and do nothing but make demands! Case in point, in New Jersey after the twin towers fell Islam's communities were rejoicing in the streets and giving out candy, they demand places to worship in public places at tax payers expense, places to wash thier feet. They have not proved anything to anyone except violence. Sure you can say not all are like this , but what are we to believe when you hear a deafening silence from thier so called leaders and communities. We are not a country in a country like the liberal Democrats may encourage and like you to believe. I am glad that we are all fighting back against this cancer. If you want, you have to prove!
10 posted on 05/09/2007 6:51:03 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (ID RATHER BE HUNTING WITH DICK THAN DRIVING WITH TED)
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