The French Senate has passed 246 to 1 a bill which bans burqa style Islamic veil on public streets and other places. The measure affects less than 2000 women but this move is widely seen as a defence of French values. By passing the bill, the Senate has taken a final step towards making this bill a law, although now it has to pass through France’s constitutional watchdog.
Many Muslims think that the bill is one more blow to the freedom of practising their religion in France and it risks raising the anti-islamic feelings where the mosques are the targets of hate.
However, the supporters of the law say that the bill will help to preserve the secure foundations and notions of fraternity. It will also preserve the nation’s values.
Both parliamentary houses said that they have asked constitutional council to ensure that the bill is constitutional to head off any legal challenges over arguments it tramples on religious and other freedoms. The Council has one month to decide.
The bill is worded carefully to pass through legal minefields. In any of its seven articles, the words ”women”, ”Muslim” and ”veil” are not even mentioned.
Although other European countries like Belgium are considering the laws against face and body covering veils, as its conflicts with the local culture, France would be the first European country to pass such a law.
The measure would outlaw face-covering veils, including those worn by tourists from the Middle East, on public streets and elsewhere.
The bill allows for fines of €150 ($200) and compulsory citizenship classes for any woman caught covering her face.
There are stiff penalties – fines of €30,000 and a year in prison – for anyone, such as husbands or brothers, convicted of forcing the veil on a woman.
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The French have succeeded in making a tiny little negligible minority women reveal (cover less) more of the physique Let us go a step forward. The same majority French women, assuming that, one day, start a successful campaign demanding that they want freedom to reveal much wider cleavage of their breasts, cleavage of upper buttocks and upper thighs thus bringing an obligatory law making the women cover less and less. The French Govt agrees to conduct a referendum whether such a law has to be passed ( after all France is a democracy and so why not respect the wishes of the majority in a democracy) enforcing all women to dress as they women liberation movement demands on greater exposure of their bodies.
The referendum goes ahead and 85% of the population vote for the law on greater exposure. In fact more men cast their yes vote, their sexually motivated reason being obvious. And French citizens ( the 15% NO VOTERS, the minority belonging to alien cultures) oppose this law and feel that it infringes on their personal rights on what they wish to cover and how much they wish to reveal . What will be the decision of the French Parliament? Will the Parliament and Judiciary force this law on all French women including the alien minority to reveal by law a wider cleavage of their breasts, buttocks and upper thighs. Will the French ban Muslim minority women covering their chest cleavage, upper buttocks, upper thighs, their bellybuttons and so on? Hypocrisy and wanton double standard due to clash of civilization and racial superiority–that is what it amounts to