Tuesday - June 23, 2009

Sarko has it right. Now if France will only listen to him.

"it’s a sign of subservience’ for women”
Never mind that although it might be true. It just does NOT fit in with western culture. Why should the west ALWAYS have to accommodate?

Whatever, good for Sarko. 
Now we wait and see if he can carry France with him to a logical conclusion on the issue.  He is right of course.
If these people vermin want to live that way fine.  Let it be in the turd world culture they came from. They aren’t wanted here and they wouldn’t be missed if they all left.
And they can take the damn travellers and gypsies with them too.

Sarkozy: Burkha is not welcome in France, ‘it’s a sign of subservience’ for women

By Peter Allen
Last updated at 9:19 AM on 23rd June 2009

President Sarkozy has risked the wrath of Muslims by backing demands for the burkha to be banned.

He declared that the full-body religious gown is a sign of the ‘debasement’ of women.

‘In our country, we cannot accept that women be prisoners behind a screen, cut off from all social life, deprived of all identity,’ he said to extended applause in Versailles, at a joint session of France’s two houses of parliament.

‘The burkha is not a religious sign, it’s a sign of subservience, a sign of debasement. It will not be welcome on the territory of the French Republic.’

The president was supporting a weekend call by dozens of French politicians for a parliamentary commission to study whether the burkha, which is growing in popularity in France, should be banned.

He laid out his support for a ban even before the panel has been approved - braving critics who fear the issue could stigmatise Muslims in France.

Remarkably, his comments came only hours before he was to host a state dinner with Sheik Hamad Bin Jassem Al Thani of Qatar.

Many women in the Gulf state wear Islamic head coverings in public - whether while shopping or driving cars.

France enacted a law in 2004 banning the Islamic headscarf and other conspicuous religious symbols from public schools, sparking fierce debate at home and abroad. France has Western Europe’s largest Muslim population, an estimated 5million.

Last year, the country’s highest court refused to grant French citizenship to a Moroccan woman who wears a burkha, on the grounds that her Muslim practices were incompatible with French gender equality and secularism laws.

Sarkozy’s comments put him at odds with President Barack Obama who, in a speech in Cairo this month, said that the U.S. prized freedom of religion and declared: ‘We are not going to tell people what to wear.’

The French leader told Mr Obama in Normandy on June 6 that French principles of equality meant people should not display religious affiliation in state institutions.

He added: ‘It is not a problem that young girls may choose to wear a veil or a headscarf as long as they have actually chosen to do so, as opposed to this being imposed upon them, be it by their families or by their environment.’

If Sarkozy succeeds France will become the first and only country to ban the wearing of the burkha. It is already banned in schools.

In Holland, controversial Dutch MP Geert Wilders, who was banned from entering Britain, tried to introduce a ban, calling the head-dress ‘a medieval symbol, a symbol against women’.

But despite Parliament voting in favour, the government was challenged in the courts and it is yet to become law - a sign of the opposition Sarkozy could expect.

The issue is highly divisive even within the French government.

The junior minister for human rights, Rama Yade, said she was open to a ban if it is aimed at protecting women forced to wear the burkha.

But Immigration Minister Eric Besson said a ban would only ‘create tensions’. 

SOURCE

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