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TechnoratiFrench government adopts burka ban bill
The French government on Wednesday approved a draft law to ban garments which cover the face in public. The bill, which targets the burka and niqab worn by some Muslim women, will now go to parliament.
“On this question, the government is taking, in all conscience, a path which is difficult but just,” President Nicolas Sarkozy told the ministers at the cabinet meeting.
“We are an old nation assembled around a certain idea of personal dignity, in particular the dignity of women, and around a certain idea of married life.”
A veil which covers the face contradicts values which are fundamental to the French republic, he said.
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The bill follows the lines already revealed in the media, notably a 150-euro fine and/or training in citizenship for women who break the law.
The opposition Socialist Party is likely to take the bill to the country’s highest court, the Conseil d’Etat, which has already warned that its provisions may be open to legal challenge.
French Islamic leaders, while condemning the practice, point out that only a tiny minority of French Muslims wear the veil and oppose the planned law on the grounds that it stigmatises their entire community.
Belgium became the first European country to ban the burka, when it passed it into law last month.
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When in Rome, do as the Romans do. When in France... I think you know what "should" come next. If the muslims don't like French customs, get your collective, burqa-clad buttocks back to whatever primitive existence you originally fled from. What chance do you think pushing French customs in Iran, Syria, Pakistan or Iraq would garner the western offender after waltzing in and setting up shop? Possibly his head handed to his family in a FedEx box. Hey, how about a Christian Bible being forced upon a muslim in any of the aforementioned countries. How "tolerant" would they be? "Not at all" is the correct answer if you faltered for even a second on that one. Whenever intolerant muslims force their customs on their western hosts, they feign personal offense in order to rule the democracy they wish to infest via a slow, viral and calculated agenda. (see the Netherlands and Canada) Peace and willpower be to France who, under Sarkozy, is once again grabbing the reigns of its proud history and fighting back.