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France backing off burka ban

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France backing off burka ban


World | 206698 hits | Nov 16 12:42 pm | Posted by: Hyack
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French legislators are expected to pull back from plans to pass a law barring Muslim women from wearing full face veils in public, according to the head of the commission looking into the issue.

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  1. by avatar GreenTiger
    Mon Nov 16, 2009 9:34 pm
    One again France demonstrated the art of Surrender.

  2. by avatar Patish
    Mon Nov 16, 2009 9:55 pm
    Hehe, no France anymore.

  3. by avatar Guy_Fawkes
    Tue Nov 17, 2009 12:39 am
    I called it! I knew this wouldnt last long.

  4. by avatar KorbenDeck
    Tue Nov 17, 2009 12:43 am
    I don't think this is the last we will hear of it. Nationalism is on the rise in Europe, France included

  5. by avatar Guy_Fawkes
    Tue Nov 17, 2009 12:59 am
    Oh no they will bitch and grumble about it, but they will never inact a law banning the burka.

  6. by avatar CanadianJeff
    Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:01 am
    That's too bad honestly. The burka is a symbol of oppression of women in the name of religion. It stands against the democratic right of freedom that we hold that women are equal to men.

    But still I suppose if we are to allow neo nazis to parade in our streets we should be tolerant of the abuse and control of women. After all what do we have to lose?

  7. by avatar MacDonaill
    Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:35 am
    Well, I mean, if a woman actually to wear the damn thing, the State shouldn't be allowed to forbid her from it. It's nobody else's business.

    That said, I wish it were my business because I admit being totally freaked out by burka-wearing women. (Are they even women? Who knows? For all we know, it could be Chewbacca in that thing.)

    That's why I was for the showing of the face for voting in Canada. I mean, how can we allow people who will not show their face to vote? It's absurd.

  8. by avatar kenmore
    Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:41 am
    Disappointing to say the least.But with 5 million of them in the country, its as much as game over anyway

  9. by avatar Guy_Fawkes
    Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:42 am
    5 million women in France wear burkas? 8O

  10. by avatar kenmore
    Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:44 am
    No, there are 5 million muslims in France.. go figure..

  11. by avatar kenmore
    Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:45 am
    The president's comments have drawn criticism in the Muslim world and from community leaders among the five million Muslims in France who worry the law would stigmatize their faith. French police intelligence agencies have also issued reports saying the use of burkas was a "marginal phenomenon," one in use by fewer than 400 women in the country.

  12. by avatar MacDonaill
    Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:46 am
    "kenmore" said
    No, there are 5 million muslims in France.. go figure..


    5 million Muslims out of almost 70 million citizens. And when you consider that most of them don't really practise the religion that fervently, it really isn't that big of a deal.

  13. by avatar martin14
    Tue Nov 17, 2009 6:42 am
    "MacDonaill" said
    No, there are 5 million muslims in France.. go figure..


    5 million Muslims out of almost 70 million citizens. And when you consider that most of them don't really practise the religion that fervently, it really isn't that big of a deal.


    I wonder if you will carry that tune when Canadian Muslims make up
    almost 10% of the population.

    The ones who should really worry are the Natives, soon enough
    they will be an ever dwindling minority, going down to even
    lower levels of the population, and lost in the abyss.


    As a good 101 man, you should appreciate this:

    have a trip down to the old center of Bordeaux, just for fun.

    No French on the commercial signs, only Arabic.
    Don't even start with Marseilles, or other towns in the south that
    now have police 'no go' areas.

    Practising religion ? Perhaps, I'll simply remind you of the riots
    over the previous years.

  14. by avatar MacDonaill
    Tue Nov 17, 2009 2:18 pm
    "martin14" said
    No, there are 5 million muslims in France.. go figure..


    5 million Muslims out of almost 70 million citizens. And when you consider that most of them don't really practise the religion that fervently, it really isn't that big of a deal.


    I wonder if you will carry that tune when Canadian Muslims make up
    almost 10% of the population.

    The ones who should really worry are the Natives, soon enough
    they will be an ever dwindling minority, going down to even
    lower levels of the population, and lost in the abyss.


    As a good 101 man, you should appreciate this:

    have a trip down to the old center of Bordeaux, just for fun.

    No French on the commercial signs, only Arabic.
    Don't even start with Marseilles, or other towns in the south that
    now have police 'no go' areas.

    Practising religion ? Perhaps, I'll simply remind you of the riots
    over the previous years.

    I'm sorry, but I fail to see the correlation between the riots and Islam. When there are Hockey riots in Montréal, do we blame Catholicism? I don't think so.

    Those riots were a result of economics, not the politics of religion.

    As for 10% of Canadians being Muslims, well I can,t lie and say that I'm thrilled about the idea, but people have the right to peacefully and lawfully practise any religion they want.



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