Posted on 10/23/2006 6:32:54 AM PDT by aculeus
PARIS -- When Nora Labrak arrived at a private employment agency in the summer near the French city of Lyon, the first question she was posed was not about her resume.
"I was asked to remove my head scarf at the lobby," Miss Labrak recalled in a telephone interview. When the 29-year-old refused, she was hustled to the door.
Long and short, sober black and brightly hued, the Muslim veil is drawing growing criticism in much of Europe. It has been chased from public schools in France and Belgium, and its strictest, face-concealing variation, the niqab, has been outlawed in a smattering of European towns.
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"If you're in Europe, you need to live according to European customs. Either you adapt or, if you want to wear Middle Eastern clothing, you leave," said Khadija Khali, head of a French Muslim women's group. A practicing Muslim who has gone to Mecca five times, Mrs. Khali does not wear a veil.
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I started to care, then I like forgot you know...
European sanity: two words I never thought I'd put together. There may be hope.
Why would a good muslim allow his wife to work? She should stay home in the kitchen, barefoot and preparing the children for suicide missions.
At a deeper level, these bans on muslim attire represent a strong desire to ban the islamic cult itself. Here's hoping the West's sleepy minds awaken to their deeper level of reason and wisdom and respond to what really needs to be done, instead of attacking just a few of the 'symptoms'.
Europeans takes care of business gradually, but it gets the job done. If the provocations continue, eventually they will rid themselves of this curse. It just takes time.
To an extent, you're right. Europeans really want to ban religion itself, it's just that they typically equate 'religion' with 'Christianity'. That's logical to a point, since Christianity has traditionally been the religion of Europe.
That said, Islam will become increasingly less tolerated, the more that the average European sees it in the same light as they do Christianity. While Christians tend to resist passively when oppressed, Muslims are quite agressive. This will eventually push the Europeans into more overt acts of repression.
good job Paloma.
VEIL DEBATE: MOST MUSLIM LEADERS IN ITALY SUPPORT PREMIER'S COMMENTS
AKI ^ | 10/18/06
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1721487/posts
Posted on 10/18/2006 8:27:49 AM CDT by Valin
Rome, 18 Oct. (AKI) - The majority of Muslim leaders in Italy voiced support Wednesday for prime minister Romano Prodi who said that Muslim immigrant women should not hide their faces behind a veil. The president of Italy's largest Muslim group, the Union of Islamic Communities in Italy (UCOII) said he agreed with the premier's words. "The niqab (a veil which reveals only the eyes) is against Italian law," said Mohammed Nur Dachan. "We perfectly agree with the premier," he added, warning however that no confusion should be made between the niqab and the hijab, which doesn't cover the face and should not be banned. On Tuesday, Prodi told Reuters: "You can't cover your face. If you have a veil, fine, but you must be seen." "It is not how you dress but if you are hidden or not," Prodi added. In the interview, the Italian premier was asked about comments by former British foreign minister Jack Straw, the leader of the House of Commons, who sparked a major debate in the UK and Europe after stating that full veils made relations "more difficult."
The deputy leader of another leading Muslim group in Italy, the Islamic Religious Community (COREIS), Yahya Pallavicini, also said he agreed with Prodi. "Prodi did well in clearly stating his views. The niqab has nothing to do with our socio-cultural context and does not correspond with the doctrine of Islam."
Under Italian law, the face cannot be covered in public for security reasons, and that applies to balaclavas and motorcycle helmets too. However, contrary to France, no law in Italy bans symbols of faith from public places.
Both UCOII and COREIS are in a government-appointed body on Muslim affairs, the Consulta Islamica.
Abd al-Hamid Shaari, the president of the Institute of Islamic culture in Milan's controversial viale Jenner mosque, at the center of a number of investigations into Islamic fundamentalism however disagreed with the premier and said "a woman should be allowed to wear whatever she wants if it poses no obstacle to her identification."
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Maybe France will survive, I'd figured Germany and Poland would be OK, pulling some others with them, but France? Perhaps they will use their famous snobery against this internal threat, rather than save it for Americans.
assimilate or pack your burka...finally!!
Doogle
Thanks for the link.
I'm sorry, but I am NOT wearing a Speedo to the beach!!!
Slowly but surely
Resistance is futile !
It's all "ok" until they start banning yarmulkes (sp?) and Nun hoods.
European anti-Semitism is alive and well, and the fact that they proudly refer to themselves as a "post-Christian" society makes the latter not unlikely.
Remember, what's done to one can easily be done to all. Socialism is on the march in Europe, and the last time I check, it is the enemy of all faiths not one.
"Muslim veils prompt bans across Europe"
Until the ROP blows up something. Then the Euros will tuck tail and run.
Wait until muggers and bandits discover that those Muslim veils are less revealing than ski masks. It's only a matter of time.
I guess you must not be overweight, then. Isn't that the European requirement for speedo-wearing?
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