A poster in Lausanne, Switzerland, reads "Stop extremism!" The Swiss passed a new ban on facial coverings in public in a narrow 51.2% majority vote Sunday.
Posted on 03/10/2021 2:16:19 AM PST by Cronos
A poster in Lausanne, Switzerland, reads "Stop extremism!" The Swiss passed a new ban on facial coverings in public in a narrow 51.2% majority vote Sunday.
Swiss voters approved a proposition Sunday banning facial coverings in public. Niqabs and burqas, worn by almost no one even among the country's Muslim population, will be banned outside of religious institutions. The new law doesn't apply to facial coverings for health reasons.
Switzerland will join several European countries that have implemented a ban on facial coverings, including France, Denmark, the Netherlands and Austria.
The new legislation was brought to the ballot through a people's initiative launched by the nation's right-wing Egerkingen Committee, the same group that led the charge to ban minarets over a decade ago, the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation reported. In 2017, the group presented over 100,000 signatures to the government and demanded the issue be brought to a national vote.
...The ban barely passed a majority vote, with 51.2% of the Swiss voting in support of the proposal. Only six of the country's cantons, similar to states, voted against the proposition, according to the SBC.
....One of the largest backers of the initiative was the nationalist Swiss People's Party, which applauded the outcome of the vote and called the new measure "A strong symbol in the fight against radical political Islam."
...The Islamic Central Council of Switzerland said the results were "Islamophobically motivated."
"Today's decision is tearing open old wounds, expanding the principle of legal inequality and sending a clear signal of exclusion to the Muslim minority," the group wrote.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
“Niqabs and burqas, worn by almost no one even among the country’s Muslim population,...”
If no one wears them then wtf is NPR whining about?
A little bit of common sense has crept in.
If no one wears them then wtf is NPR whining about?
_____________________________________________________
If no one wears them (or alomst no one wears them), then why ban them. Assuming that these people are vulonatrily wearing them, what is wrong with more modest (as opposed to less modest) dress?
We are not talking about no cleavage. We are talking about no face, which is offensive to Western values. Go Switzerland.
We are not talking about no cleavage. We are talking about no face, which is offensive to Western values. Go Switzerland.
___________________________________________________
Oh yeah...no face....I know that keeps me up all night in a fit of anger. /s
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.