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Dutch Muslims Condemn Burqa Ban

Posted on November 18th, 2006 by The King.
Categories: Everything and Anything!!!.

These are some of the quotes that I found important, I felt that they summed up the case. The whole case, if you want to read it is at the end of the quotes. My views on the issue are at the end of the quotes.

Dutch Muslims have criticized a government proposal to ban women from wearing the burqa or veils which cover the face in public places….

The Dutch cabinet said burqas - a full body covering that also obscures the face - disturb public order and safety…

The proposed ban would apply to wearing the burqa in the street, and in trains, schools, buses and law courts in the Netherlands. Other forms of face coverings, such as veils, and crash helmets with visors that obscure the face, would also be covered by a ban…

“The Cabinet finds it undesirable that face-covering clothing - including the burqa - is worn in public places for reasons of public order, security and protection of citizens,” she[Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk] said…

“It has to do with radicalisation, it has to do with fears and the absolute reality of radicalisation amongst Muslim youngsters.

“The problem is only that you can’t say that every person wearing a niqab or hijab or burqa - whatever you call it - is a radical,” Naima Azough, an MP with the opposition Green party who is also Muslim, said the ban was not in keeping with the country’s history of tolerance and said the Dutch government was playing on people’s fears of Islamic extremism to win votes

BBC Article

Outrageous. One simple word sums it all up. I mean I think I’ll agree that it’s just another political propaganda. This just happened before the election. Hmm… When i read the article, the first thing that came to my mind was the whole mess with the cartoon of Mohammad. I fear that this might turn out the same way, which none of us want.
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