France is moving closer to a total ban on burqas. A top French lawmaker submitted a bill that would bar the mode of dress anywhere in public. Muslim leaders in France say that Islam doesn't require women to cover their bodies and faces save for their eyes, but some Muslim women living in France disagree.
One woman was quoted by the AP as saying, "That frightens us enormously ... It's like asking us to go naked."
Wow! Is it really? I dunno but I think there's a teeny weeny bit of discrepancy with that statement.
Obviously, this proposed law is designed to keep radical Islam at bay. If you can't dress the dress, you can't talk the talk ... or something like that. Put another way : If you're not wearing a tent from Ringling Brothers you probably can't have 200 lbs. of explosives strapped to your body without anybody noticing.
A law passed in 2004 banned Muslim headscarves and other ostentatious religious symbols in French public schools.
Some argue a ban on burqas would be an violation of an individual's basic rights in a democratic country.
With the recent Swiss ban on minarets and now the proposed burqa ban, Europe appears to be chiefly concerned with protecting itself from attacks by radical Muslims, as was seen in London in 2005 and Madrid in 2004.
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