By Nicholas Vinocur
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| French police and gendarmes check identity cards of two women for wearing full-face veils, in Lille September 22, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Pascal Rossignol |
Thursday, 25 July 2013
France Stands by Ban on Muslim Veils After Riots
Posted on 11:00 by the great khali
RUETERS
By Nicholas Vinocur
FRANCE---France's interior minister on Monday defended a ban on wearing full-face veils in public after a police check on a Muslim woman caused two nights of rioting near Paris, exposing tensions in immigrant-heavy suburbs. The 2010 law was brought in by conservative former president Nicolas Sarkozy and targets burqa and niqab garments that conceal the face, rather than the headscarf that is more common among French Muslim women. [link]
By Nicholas Vinocur
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