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Burqa a prison--French minister
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by danesller0127 | July 17, 2008 at 02:38 pm
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PARIS-- Women who wear burqas (abayas) live in prison, a French minister said in an interview Wednesday, after a Morrocan woman who wears the head-to-toe Islamic veil was denied french citizenship.
"The burqa is a prison, it's a straightjacket," Urban Affairs Minister Fadela Amara, herself a practicing Muslim who was born in France to Algerian parents, said in an interview to Le Parisien newspaper. "It is not a religious insignia but the insignia of a totalitarian political project that advocates inequality between the sexes and which is totally devoid of democracy."
France's top administrative court, the state council, on June 27 rejected the citizenship request on the grounds that woman's Muslim practices were incompatible with French laws on secularrism and gender equality.
Amara said the ruling might 'dissuade certain fanatics from imposing the burqa on their wivwes." The Morrocan woman, identified only as 32-year-old Faiza M, turned up for interviews with French authorities to discuss her application accompanied by her husband and wearing the long veil "with only her eyes visible through an opening," according to government officials quoted by the newspaper.
source: AFP/Saudi Gazette
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at 15:37 on July 17th, 2008
danesller0127, I like this story. It's good stuff. Doubt if it will deter fanatics, it will only inflame them and make them more determined to try to impose their will on their 'adopted' country. Isn't that their original intent?
at 16:52 on July 17th, 2008
Thank you very much!!! Rene' for the input...I'm afraid not! that's why i copied all the text of the story, so that the readers will know or understand on what minister Fadela Amara, told to Le Parisien newspaper, about his personal perspective to women wearing burqas...
"It is not a religious insignia but the insignia of a totalitarian political project that advocates inequality between the sexes and which is totally devoid of democracy."
Thanks again...
danesller
at 15:47 on July 17th, 2008
danseller, please use the highlight tool. Your post is copied word for word from the Saudi Gazette, and while you do acknowledge that, it could appear to readers that you did some of your own work. The highlight tool will allow readers to distinguish your text from text you have taken from other sources.
at 16:00 on July 17th, 2008
Hi, there! julianw you're right my source is from the Saudi Gazette newspaper, sorry, still i did'nt know how to use these highlight tools, i want to learn this tools... thanks again
danesller
at 09:55 on July 20th, 2008
Depending on what browser you use, you can use the edit to make changes to your story and add links. these [ marks surrounding a q can make a blockquote. Or .... I have a Mac and Safari has no editing extras. but Firefox and Camino (only on a Mac) do. Got to play around with the edits if you don't have Highlighter widget.
at 10:48 on July 20th, 2008
Depending on what browser you use, you can use the edit to make changes to your story and add links. these [ marks surrounding a q can make a blockquote. Or .... I have a Mac and Safari has no editing extras. but Firefox and Camino (only on a Mac) do. Got to play around with the edits if you don't have Highlighter widget.
at 11:40 on July 26th, 2008
Yeah!!! thanks Rene' for the support... i try many times of this highlight tools but still i don't make it, maybe my PC is not compatible with this widget... but don't worry i will try again , till' i succeed. many thanks indeed...
danesller
at 06:19 on July 18th, 2008
danesller0127, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Turkey Was the first Country to impose such laws, and outlawed the abayas all together. This is a Moslem country and this law is over 70 years in place now, changed by the resend Government in Turkey, however the Turkish constitutional court deemed the law unconstitutional! Algeria has similar laws as do other Moslem Countries. The extremes have only surfaced in the past 20 to 30 years around the World, other than Emirates and Egypt that always had those. The Move back to the Abayas is in part a political statement rather than a religious one, mainly against Western Politics!
Frances move is a radical one, that does not only affect the Moslem, even wearing Christian symbols such as a cross is also out lawed, at least in Public that is!
at 13:05 on July 19th, 2008
Pachen!!! thanks for the additional lines, information on this story...
This islamic clothing has became a contoversial political issue for the past years in Western Europe, It is also aknowledge prohibition by some intelectuals and political groups of advocate, for various reasons.
Traditional burqas or abayas are widely worn by Muslim women and non-Muslims, inside Saudi Arabia.
And thanks, again for the flag...
Maraming salamat, kaibigan!!!
danesller
at 11:24 on July 20th, 2008
Don't wear such a stupid uniform in France, the country of style, Yves St Laurent, Coco channel, Dior, Karl lagerfeld, Pierre d'Alcy. As the experience of Dubai shows with british tourists landing in prisons, you have to protect your beautifull women (see picture) from your sexual overexited men ( sorry to say it clear "looking for pigs" at the beaches of ... and staring like pigs") The Abayas or stronger version Burqas is for the men that not yet have learned to look with respect to women, learn it don't try to get us back to middle age. Go in your country to a shopping mal, women have no right for a driver's license they are a gadget for you, it's o.k. it's your way of living, start to develop for 21st century, not only building towers, waiting for tourists that will not come; France prefers Belly dance and hot arabic dessous for the night cup. Why you never writing about your oriental sexuality. You have all 10 children what you doing in the night. Don' t take me for to serious, I am always in a challenge with your photos very promising eyes. We love your countries; pls develop we need you. P.s. Your women mostly date over credit card ID in a shopping mal buying french luxury products. Thanks
at 10:13 on July 21st, 2008
SOLARLIFE! I resfect your personal opinion...all people have diffirent in their personal opinion, but for me burqa or abaya is not a 'style' it's an Islamic dress, that they will use inside or outside their country, because they are muslims, specially to womens, and for me because i am here the muslim country and i'm not a muslim, i follow there rules, regulations and their culture... Example why you wear with your coat and tie everyday? Because you're Europeans and not Filipinos. We don't say that Arabs is same as French or French is the same as Indians or Bangladesh... We're different in culture, and that's why we've to resfect our own and their tradition too. Thanks
Oops!!! we're in the media, we've to be fair and balanced... in reporting!!!