French government warns principles are at stake, proposing to ban Islamic veil
Another show of courage in the war on encroaching Shari'a, as the French government again recommends banning full veils (via Jihad Watch):
Update: Barbara Kay at Pajamas Media writes about why the west must ban the burqa and nix the niqab.
France's ruling party, the conservative Union Pour un Mouvement Populaire (UMP), says it plans to present a bill to parliament in January, which would ban full Islamic veils in all public places. The bill is to be presented in the first two weeks of next month, just before the conclusions of a French parliamentary inquiry on the burqa and niqab are published.This is one of many notable cases where religion is confused with race, and the moonbats making the charges fail to use "anti-relgious" as the basis of their accusations. It's because they know they otherwise don't have much of a leg to stand on, so they boggle the exact facts and issues in their stupidity.
Jean-Francois Cope, the parliamentary party leader of the UMP, said the measure was meant to defend France from extremists.
"There are principles at stake: Extremists are putting the republic to the test by promoting a practice that they know is contrary to the basic principles of our country," he said.
Veils "not welcome" in France
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said that veils that hide women's faces in public are "not welcome" in France. Most politicians say they would like to see the results of the parliamentary inquiry on the veils before they decide on the need for a law.
According to French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux, about 1,900 women in France wear full Islamic veils. Hortefeux has said that applications for French citizenship or residence by burqa wearing women, along with their husbands, should be "systematically" refused. However, reports by French intelligence services put the number of women wearing burqas at "fewer than 400."
In the Paris newspaper Le Figaro, Cope said that the move was "a law of liberation" and not a ban.
A complete ban on Islamic veils could be met with legal obstacles, in the same way the Swiss ban on minarets was challenged by the European Court of Human Rights. The French government has already been accused of racism with regard to its campaign to discuss national identity.
Update: Barbara Kay at Pajamas Media writes about why the west must ban the burqa and nix the niqab.
