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Europe: National Bans on Islamic Face Covering Spread

A rare piece of good news from Europe has appeared regarding its confrontation with muslim immigration: six nations have enacted laws that partially or fully ban face veils in public.

It has been a long time coming to resist the noisy shaming strategy of the invaders, but the political climate has changed a bit over […]

France: Lower Parliament Votes to Ban Burqas

After jawboning for a couple years about perhaps making public face-covering illegal, the French have taken action. The lower house of the legislature passed a bill and it is thought the legislation will become law in September.

There has also been also movement in Belgium to disallow burqas in the public space: Belgium ban burqa-type […]

France Considers the Veiled Threat to Values of the Republic

France has been debating the burqa and whether it fits in French society for some time. Last June, the President drew a line in the cultural sand when he condemned the offensive Islamic garment (Nicolas Sarkozy: burqa not welcome in France).

The BBC item caught my attention because an actual Communist official turned out to […]