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From this August 9, 2009 article in the Washington Post:
I'm not sure that I have recently seen in print in a mainstream-media publication that wearing the burqa is promoting "Islamic fundamentalism," which might be better expressed by the words "Islamic terrorism." Of course, using the words "Islamic terrorism" is tabu as those words interfere with singing kumbaya with those sworn to our destruction.
What's the new euphemism? Man-caused disasters, or something like that?
- European Human Rights Court Upholds France's Burqa Ban - But This News Might Not Be As Good As It Sounds
Sounds like good news, but I'm not so sure. Check it out. From the Wall Street Journal: The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday upheld France's ban on wearing full-face veils in public, rejecting arguments that the ban undermines freedoms...
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Newsmax: French Parliament Debates Ban On Burqa-Style Veils Tuesday, 06 Jul 2010 06:48 PM France's justice minister went before parliament Tuesday to defend a hotly debated bill that would ban burqa-style Islamic veils in public, arguing that hiding...
- Spanish Town Bans Burqa
Telegraph: Spanish town bans Burka in public buildings The Spanish town of Lerida has become the first in the country to ban the Burka in municipal buildings. The town council voted to prohibit the "use of the veil and other clothes and accessories which...
- French Parliament Condemns Islamic Veil
Newsmax: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 8:27 PM PARIS - The French parliament on Tuesday unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the full-face Islamic veil as an affront to the nation's values, setting the stage for a law banning it. The vote in the National...
- French Feminists Attack Obama Over Islamic Veil
It takes feminists all the way from France to finally say what American feminists ought to have been saying for years. Saturday, 06 June 2009 French feminists attacked US President Barack Obama's defence of the Islamic veil yesterday, accusing him...
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The Islamic Veil In France
From this August 9, 2009 article in the Washington Post:
...French people have long been accustomed to Muslim women wearing head scarves and long dresses. But the sight of women covered by black veils, increasingly frequent in some towns, has become the latest test of France's uneasy role as host to the largest Muslim population in Europe, nearly 6 million out of 64 million. Because of its stark distinction from the way European women dress, the full veil has generated a public outcry, becoming a symbol widely perceived as an assault on France's secular values.Read the entire article HERE.
"It's ridiculous," sneered Jose Aparecio, 66, a retired plumber surveying the busy square in Venissieux. "I don't know what they're trying to prove."
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Most of the outrage, particularly among Paris commentators, has centered on women's rights, based on a supposition that women who wear full veils are forced to do so by their husbands. For instance, the Council of State, France's highest administrative tribunal, upheld the government's refusal to naturalize a veiled Moroccan woman because it said her attire "clashed with the values of a democratic society and the principle of sexual equality."
But more broadly, the decision to wear a full-length veil has been interpreted as a way to defy the ideal of integration, which traditionally has underpinned France's attitude toward Muslims and other immigrants. By ostentatiously refusing to blend in, women wearing such attire have generated intense resentment among European-stock French people long uncomfortable with an unaccustomed religion in their midst.
To some extent, the resentment also has spread among Muslim immigrants, particularly the elderly, who from humble beginnings worked hard to become part of the society and now see fellow Muslims challenging their adopted values. "If they don't like it here, they can always leave," sniffed Mustafa Zemaoui, 65, a retired locksmith who was sipping on a little glass of rose wine as the lunch hour approached.
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...[T]he women become "walking prisons" behind their veils and, more important, are part of a campaign by hundreds of politically oriented Islamic fundamentalists to spread their views among Muslims in poor neighborhoods near the major cities of Lyon, Paris and Marseille....
I'm not sure that I have recently seen in print in a mainstream-media publication that wearing the burqa is promoting "Islamic fundamentalism," which might be better expressed by the words "Islamic terrorism." Of course, using the words "Islamic terrorism" is tabu as those words interfere with singing kumbaya with those sworn to our destruction.
What's the new euphemism? Man-caused disasters, or something like that?
- European Human Rights Court Upholds France's Burqa Ban - But This News Might Not Be As Good As It Sounds
Sounds like good news, but I'm not so sure. Check it out. From the Wall Street Journal: The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday upheld France's ban on wearing full-face veils in public, rejecting arguments that the ban undermines freedoms...
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Newsmax: French Parliament Debates Ban On Burqa-Style Veils Tuesday, 06 Jul 2010 06:48 PM France's justice minister went before parliament Tuesday to defend a hotly debated bill that would ban burqa-style Islamic veils in public, arguing that hiding...
- Spanish Town Bans Burqa
Telegraph: Spanish town bans Burka in public buildings The Spanish town of Lerida has become the first in the country to ban the Burka in municipal buildings. The town council voted to prohibit the "use of the veil and other clothes and accessories which...
- French Parliament Condemns Islamic Veil
Newsmax: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 8:27 PM PARIS - The French parliament on Tuesday unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the full-face Islamic veil as an affront to the nation's values, setting the stage for a law banning it. The vote in the National...
- French Feminists Attack Obama Over Islamic Veil
It takes feminists all the way from France to finally say what American feminists ought to have been saying for years. Saturday, 06 June 2009 French feminists attacked US President Barack Obama's defence of the Islamic veil yesterday, accusing him...