Posted on 05/27/2015 6:27:44 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
More than 10 years after France passed its first anti-veil law restricting young girls from wearing veils in public schools, the head coverings of observant Muslim women, from colorful silk scarves to black chadors, have become one of the most potent flash points in the nation’s tense relations with its vibrant and growing Muslim population.
Mainstream politicians continue to push for new measures to deny veiled women access to jobs, educational institutions and community life. They often say they are doing so for the benefit of public order or in the name of laïcité, the French term for the separation of church and state.
But critics say these efforts, rather than promoting a sense of secular inclusion, have encouraged rampant discrimination against Muslims in general and veiled women in particular. The result has been to fuel a sense among many Muslims that France — which celebrates Christian holidays in public schools — is engaging in a form of state racism.
The ban, some critics argue, also plays into the hands of Islamists, who are eager to drive a deeper wedge between Muslims and non-Muslims in the West.
So far, France has passed two laws, one in 2004 banning veils in public elementary and secondary schools, and another, enacted in 2011, banning full face veils, which are worn by only a tiny portion of the population.
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Veil Bans Give Cover to Bias?
such rich use of the language
“vibrant”? I think the Stone Age was more vibrant.
If a Sunni muslim male put on a bomb vest and veiled completely from head to toe, walked in to a Shiite mosque and detonated the bomb killing lots of muzzies, would that incident make them reconsider their stupid veiling demands?
Didn’t think so.
Don’t like French law? Go back to the Middle East.
Shouldn't that be "Veil[s] Bans Give Cover to Bias"
Now, now, we have to be inclusive.
I think the third one from the left is hot!
dittobump.
The culture of the country you enter does NOT have to conform or make accommodations for your cultural preferences that are at variance with it.
They always say this crap. The truth is there is the 15% that are extremists, and the 80% that support their aims.
Yeah, but check out the third one from the right! LOL
A woman named Rubin describes black sack clothed wraiths as...”vibrant”?
Yeah, if you think of Jewish slaughter as eclectic.
What is it, 5 months since Charlie Hebdo?
And some puerile idiot children have already forgotten and are back at it, condemning any Western attempt at saving their societies from the inbred troglodytes?
Leni
We need to ban that carp here also. It makes me sick to walk into the Kroger and see the Burka babe walking around. Its an affront the dignity of all women.
Oh that would be discriminatory.
Resistance is not allowed.
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