A French Muslim woman has been fined for wearing a burka at the wheel of her car – weeks before the proposed introduction of a total ban on the full-body veil.
The 31-year-old was stopped by two policemen in Nantes in western France earlier this month as she drove wearing a burka, or niqab, covering all but her eyes. She was given a €22 (£19) fine for "driving in uncomfortable conditions", because her vision was allegedly reduced. Her lawyer lodged an appeal this week, claiming that her human rights had been infringed. [independent.co.uk] Read more
Hortefeux Wants Arab Polygamist -- Four Wives, Twelve Children On The Dole -- To Be Stripped Of His Citizenship The niqabbed woman driver who received a fine the other day in France turns out to be one of four wives of a man who arrived from Algeria in 1999, obtained French citizenship through marriage, and now has four wives, and twelve children by them. All four of those wives have claimed to be "single" and all have, as a consequence, been receiving support, along with those twelve children, from the French state.
Meanwhile, the polyphiloprogentivie father is a member of that sinister spreader of Islam the Tablighi al-Jamaat. The French Minister of the Interior, Brice Hortefeux, has asked the Minister of Immigration, Eric Besson, to look into the legality of stripping this Algerian pseudo-Frenchman of his French citizenship. [The Iconoclast] Read more
French muslims feel stigmatised in veil row Muslims in the French city where a woman was fined for driving in an Islamic veil complained of being stigmatised by the affair as the political repercussions rumbled on.
.... 'The muslims of Nantes... are worried by this systematic stigmatisation which goes against the values of the Republic,' the collective of Nantes mosques said in a statement. The association 'considers that the stopping of a driver is a judicial procedure and is angry at how such an event has been turned into being all about Islam.' [RTÉ] Read more
