.... Although France is not the first country to legislate on the issue, the legal moves to ban the burqa and the niqab in certain public places have caught the attention of the global media.
Interestingly – though unsurprisingly to me as a French woman – the disagreement lies between France and other countries (mainly Britain and the US) and not within France itself. Indeed two out of three people in France are actually in favour of a complete ban on the burqa in public places, which goes further than the proposal the French parliament will act on this spring.
In other words, two thirds of France thinks that wearing the burqa in public should be completely banned and is “contrary to our values and to the ideals we have of women’s dignity”, as Mr Sarkozy said. [The Samosa] Read more
