France Enforces Veil Ban Today
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, April 11, 2011, 4:51 AM
It’s show your face day in France.
France enforces the veil ban today that makes it a crime to wear the full face burqa in public.
The women will be forced to show their face in public on streets.
Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty reported:
A controversial law banning the wearing of garments that cover the face in public comes into force in France today.
It’s the first such nationwide ban to be enforced in an EU country, after similar efforts in Belgium last year were derailed by a government crisis.
The ban primarily affects Muslim women who wear the full-face veil, barring it from government buildings, public services, streets, and entertainment venues.
Proponents argue it is necessary on grounds of security, gender equality, and upholding France’s secular system. The ban also enjoys broad public support in France, with four out of five polled in a survey last year (Pew Global Attitudes Project) saying they approved.
Critcs Claim Ban Increases Harrassment
But critics say it violates rights such as freedom of expression and religion. And many Muslims say they have felt stigmatized during the intense debate that preceded the adoption of the law, as well as by a recent divisive debate on French national identity, and a 2004 law banning Islamic headscarves in classrooms.
Kenza Dryder, a mother-of-four, told Reuters she has faced harassment for wearing the face veil since the law was approved last year:
“I’ve had to deal with every form of abuse,” she said.
“Verbal, moral, physical abuse. Someone [even] assaulted me with a knife. The life I’ve had since the start of this debate? Well, when going outside, I constantly get looks of hatred, insults.”
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Andreas K. commented:
I’ll believe it when I see it.
Until then this is how it really is: http://www.pi-news.net/2011/04/bilder-aus-paris-vom-8-april-2011/ Paris, April 8, 2011
Formerly known as Skeptic commented:
So if the full-face veil is attracting undue attention to the woman, is it not doing exactly the OPPOSITE of what it is supposedly intended for?
a former democrat commented:
why would they want to wear that awful disgusting veil anyways?
It gets hot in there, you can’t see.
Frankly, I want a ban that no state employee of any state should wear a veil, a kipa (so muslims can’t complain), nothing to indicate their religion. Isn’t that ACLU’s thing, no state promotion of religion???
The All Real Numbers Symbol commented:
#2 – Good point.
I’m tired of these Muztards not assimilating. If they want to force women to wear sacks let them go back to the Middle East.
OT here, but where’s bg been?
Cmate commented:
Compliance and enforcement will be exactly ZERO.
Tim commented:
These Muslim women need to stand up for themselves and stop being the subjects of abuse/slavery to the pigs they call husbands, fathers, brothers, etc. If they wish to live that way in the caves of Afghanistan and other backwards countries, so be it; but emmigrating to the Western World should empower them to remove these bonds of shame…..
Steve in Tulsa commented:
No weaaring masks in public. Only bandits were masks. If she cannot be seen in public then she shouldn’t leave the house unattended by male relatives who do not wear masks. And under the mask how do you know it is even a woman? The religion that loves death should not be allowed to wear masks.
DomesticGoddess commented:
There true objection is that they are terrified their “husbands” will now kill them for not wearing the burka.
Hedgehog commented:
The birth rate will probably plummet.
sandbox commented:
This is a big win for western civilization. The ban applies to all public mask wearing–so there are exceptions for safety (like motorcycle helmit) and for special occasions (like say Hollaween).
Ella commented:
I dunno, I could support Michelle Obama wearing a mask. I bet Zippy would love it too.
Militant Conservative commented:
Massive ugly unleashed upon the country of France.
powder is dry
ASCII Mohammed commented:
(((((:~{>
_____|\________________________________________________________
|
| How dare those infidel French keep us from stuffing our property
| in sacks!
| How will our morality police know which property is to be beaten?
| The next think you know, they’ll make us follow French law
| instead of Sharia!
|______________________________________________________________
thegoldman commented:
The veil is not in their religion.
It is put their because someone had a beautifully wife and wanted to hide it all for himself…
Sooner or later the Sunlight penetrates…
regularguy commented:
Until the west bans islam itself, we’re just pussyfooting around. Seriously.
Andreas K. commented:
Related:
Here’s something for you to laugh at: http://my.telegraph.co.uk/markulyseas/tag/arifinto/
Indonesian politician Arifinto was caught watching porn in the Indonesian parliament. The guy’s a member of the islamic Prosperous Justice Party and will likely suffer consequences for it.
Andreas K. commented:
And in France a 32-year old mohammedan woman named Kenza Drider is already threatening with taking the burka ban to the European Human Rights Court.
She will most likely win, if it even comes that far. Sarkozy will, likely, cave before that.
Birdy commented:
To Quote:
“Kenza Dryder, a mother-of-four, told Reuters she has faced harassment for wearing the face veil since the law was approved last year:
“I’ve had to deal with every form of abuse,” she said.
“Verbal, moral, physical abuse. Someone [even] assaulted me with a knife. The life I’ve had since the start of this debate? Well, when going outside, I constantly get looks of hatred, insults.””
Course technically aren’t they NOT supposed to be allowed outside at all? Especially not with out a related male escort? So really what’s her problem.
Gary commented:
They’ve already said the police were told not to actually enforce the law
on another point though
#6 #8
Please don’t equate this to battered wife syndrome. It is a woman after all threatening to see this in court. They aren’t just threatened into wearing it. They are taught at an early age to wear it in submission to Allah’s will. Look at the quote from the one lady. They truly believe it is against Allah to take it off.
And on another point,
the Koran does include verses that can be interepreted this way. Nobody made this up.
Read Brigitte Gabrielle’s They Must Be Stopped
She gives some detail on what Muslims are about and the “scriptural” basis for some of their practices.
Even the Christian Bible says that a woman’s head should be covered by a veil when they are praying or prophesying, and in the New Testament (1 Corinthians 11: 2-6). Imagine if Christians extrapolated on that verse the way Muslims have. It would be the same thing in effect.
Maybe a better law would be that anybody wearing a veil can be presumed a criminal at large and can be punched sqaure in the face with impunity.
Mark commented:
Get a pair, Frogs, and deport these vermin.
Andreas K. commented:
Actually, Steve in Tulsa, there is a ban for covering your face in public in Germany. The so called “Vermummungsverbot”.
Guess who’s excempt…
You guessed right. It’s our favorite savages, who follow a blood-thirsty ideology made up by an immoral bedouin roughly 1,400 years ago, the so called “muslims”.
mcc commented:
She’s “…had to deal with every form of abuse…Verbal, moral, physical…assaulted…with a knife.”
Probably speaking of what her husband dishes out.
money gets votes commented:
If they don’t respect Frances LAW then leave–go back to IRAN. Where women are cattle. In CANADA you must sign a waiver stating YOU will obey their laws or LEAVE! In Australia they state we did not ask you to come here–and IF you do not like our laws—leave. Its that simple. They move to new areas and then try to change the culture to their LAW—