A French parliament report called Tuesday for a ban on the full Islamic veil, saying Muslim women who wear the burqa were posing an "unacceptable" challenge to French values.
After six months of hearings, a panel of 32 lawmakers recommended a ban on the face-covering veil in all schools, hospitals, public transport and government offices, the broadest move yet to restrict Muslim dress in France.
"The wearing of the full veil is a challenge to our republic. This is unacceptable," the report said. "We must condemn this excess."
The commission however stopped short of proposing broad legislation to outlaw the burqa in the streets, in shopping centres and other public venues after raising doubts about the constitutionality of such a move.
"The wearing of the full veil is the tip of the iceberg," said communist lawmaker Andre Gerin, the chair of the commission, who presented the report to the parliament speaker.
"There are scandalous practices hidden behind this veil," said Gerin who vowed to fight the "gurus" he said were seeking to export a radical brand of fundamentalism and sectarianism to France.
Tensions flared at the last minute when a group of right-wing lawmakers pushed unsuccessfully for a tougher measure to ban the burqa in all public venues.
In the end, the commission called on parliament to adopt a resolution stating that the all-encompassing veil was "contrary to the values of the republic" and proclaiming that "all of France is saying 'no' to the full veil".
sounds pretty serious right ... except ...
Despite a large Muslim presence, the sight of fully-veiled women is not common in France. Only 1,900 women wear the burqa, according to the interior ministry.
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January 26, 2010
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"There are scandalous practices hidden behind this veil".
intersting.
Now as i remember in our islamic terms it's not obligate to wear veil(niqab not hijab) unless there's a lot of "fitneh" goin around.
in france, wearing niqab is like "mojahade". France is full of christians or non-islamic follwers people and wearing niqab there ;is putting u under spotlights.
but the number of ppl wearing niqab in france is so marginal its a non-issue .. ya3ni mish mistahle .. its just like banning minarets in switzerland .. that was a non-issue as well ..
yea i guess msh mstahle maybe elna, but it does matter for frensh ppl that this marginal number ma ykbar :)
arabs history with trust issues in europe or usa is just so fragile
it matters that this marginal number ma yikbar so they shine a big spotlight on it and demonize it .. ya thats very smart ..
less than 2000 women wearing niqab constitutes no threat whatsoever to the precious republic ..
they can spin it however they want .. the niqab is incompatible with our values it is a security threat whatever .. its all bullshit .. its just the rightwing being rightwing nothing more nothing less ..
,,,please keep in mind that masked individuals in public is unlawful, regardless of religious preferences, notwhitstanding the probability of ulterior motives for doing so. There are many other valid reasons for forbiding the obscuring of reckongizable facial features in public, the primary that comes to mind being the "Fear Factor" experienced by the public.
edgygil
as i said i believe that wearing veil is considered obligate when theres fetnah or alot of sins or the woman is so beautiful. u want to be a muslim move to islamic countries.*
in france what they follow is christianity and wearing the niqab in streets will terrify the local people nevertheless affecting the tourism there.
u can say 2000 isnt a marginal no. and spotting the light in this issue can minimize it, at least theyre so honest about it, banning minarets in swiss was done by majority voting.
AND we can not deny how european or americans or canadians or who ever consider us (ARABS) as the source of terrorisim.
and niqab is a security threat here in gulf countries.
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