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Vive la Burqa? by Phyllis Chesler FrontPageMagazine.com April 12, 2011 http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/969/vive-la-burqa Send Comment RSS Share: Be the first of your friends to like this. Excerpt: Women are fighting in the streets of Paris. Alas, they are not fighting against Islamic gender apartheid—they are not protesting arranged marriage or honor killings. Instead, they are fighting for the right to veil their faces. On April 11th, two veiled women were arrested for participating in an illegal demonstration about this issue. Sixty-one people were arrested for the same reason this past weekend. It is the 21st century, and people are protesting the French government's ban against the niqab and burqa (full-face veil) which just went into effect. Vive La France! It is important to note that France has not banned the headscarf (hijab) and that the French ban is not specific to Islam. The French law is ethnicity- and religion-neutral and refers only to a generic "face-covering." In 2004, France became the first European country to legally restrict all religious clothing in public schools: veils, visible Christian crosses, Jewish skullcaps, and hijab were forbidden in public schools. Read the complete original version of this item... Related Topics: Hijab & Burqa, Islamic Gender & Religious Apartheid
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