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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). …

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: burqaban; rop; switzerland; tessin
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To: Olog-hai

Good. We need that here. We had laws against wearing me asks in public in Klu Klux Klan days. Why are these people any different?


21 posted on 07/07/2016 4:36:42 AM PDT by ZULU (Donald Trump is the biggest threat to the New World Order since Barry Goldwater)
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To: Olog-hai

How long before a jihadist self-detonates on the person writing the ticket…4…3…2…

Western civilization laws are not sharia compliant.


22 posted on 07/07/2016 4:48:13 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Olog-hai

Kick them out.


23 posted on 07/07/2016 6:16:49 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: Travis McGee

Surah 33:50.


24 posted on 07/07/2016 7:46:12 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Mark17
Screw PC.

It has a new meaning now - "Pre-emptive Cringing" (thank you Mark Steyn!).

25 posted on 07/07/2016 8:37:23 AM PDT by Oatka (Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.)
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To: Ray76
How about beheading? /s

How about feeding them to pigs.

[I know, I know: unfair to the poor pig....]

26 posted on 07/07/2016 11:30:02 AM PDT by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
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