(15SEP10)
ASALAM-O-ALIKUM
French Muslim population,
estimated 5 million is the largest in western Europe.
THEN WHY ??
French Senate on Tuesday
overwhelmingly passed a bill banning the burqa-style Islamic veil on public
streets and other places,
THEN WHY ??
Numerous Muslim women who
wear the face-covering veil have said “they are being increasingly
harassed in the streets.”
(source china
daily)
THE RIGHT AND REAL ANSWER IS:
MUSLIMS ARE NOT REAL MUSLIMS, MUSLIMS
NO MORE FEEL PAIN FOR MUSLIMS, MUSLIMS LIKE NON-MUSLIM CULTRUES (LIKE DANCES,
MORDERN CLOTHS, FASHION, WASTING MONEY, LOVING WORLD ETC) MUSLIM ARE SEPARATED
IN SAMLL GROUPS AND EVEN INSIDE GROUPS!!!
SO
THINGS LIKE THIS WILL KEEP HAPPEN…..AND WILL KEEP HAPPEN……..
WHATS SOLUTION ??
ONLY
SOLUTION IS ALLAH ORDERS. WHEN MUSLIMS DO AS PER ALLAH ORDERS THEN ALLAH GIVE
GOVERNANCE OF WORLD TO MUSLIMS LIKE BEFORE FOR THOUSAND YEARS.
TO SAVE YOURSELF AND TO SAVE MUSLIM UMMAH
LOVE
ALLAH, LOVE ALLAH PROPHET (PBUH), OBEY ALLAH EACH AND EVERY ORDER, BOW TO
ALLAH, ASK FORGIVENESS TO ALLAH, LOVE YOUR MUSLIM BORTHERS, EVEN IF ANY
CONFLICTS, EVEN IF YOU ARE RIGHT, STILL LOVE AND CARE THEM, PRAY FOR THEM. TELL
GOOD THINGS TO OTHER MUSLIMS
ALLAH BLESS US
RIGHT KNOWLEDGE (AMEEN)
YOURS TRULY
HASAN AZHAR
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French Senate passes ban on
full Muslim veils
(Agencies)
Updated: 2010-09-15 07:02
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PARIS – The French Senate on
Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a bill banning the burqa-style Islamic veil on
public streets and other places, a measure that affects less than 2,000 women
but that has been widely seen as a symbolic defense of French values.
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The Senate voted 246 to 1 in
favor of the bill in a final step toward making the ban a law – though it
now must pass muster with France’s constitutional watchdog. The bill was
overwhelmingly passed in July in the lower house, the National Assembly.
Many Muslims believe the
legislation is one more blow to France’s No. 2 religion, and risks raising the
level of Islamophobia in a country where mosques, like synagogues, are sporadic
targets of hate. However, the law’s many proponents say it will preserve the
nation’s values, including its secular foundations and a notion of fraternity
that is contrary to those who hide their faces.
In an attempt to head off any
legal challenges over arguments it tramples on religious and other freedoms,
the leaders of both parliamentary houses said they had asked a special body to
ensure it passes constitutional muster. The Constitutional Council has one
month to rule.
The bill is worded to trip safely through legal minefields. For
instance, the words "women," "Muslim" and "veil"
are not even mentioned in any of its seven articles.
"This law was the object
of long and complex debates," the Senate president, Gerard Larcher, and
National Assembly head Bernard Accoyer said in a joint statement announcing
their move. They said they want to be certain there is "no
uncertainty" about its conforming to the constitution.
France would be the first
European country to pass such a law, though others, notably neighboring
Belgium, are considering laws against face-covering veils, seen as conflicting
with the local culture.
"Our duty concerning such
fundamental principles of our society is to speak with one voice," said
Justice Minister Michele Alliot-Marie, opening a less than 5-hour-long debate
ahead of the vote.
The measure, carried by
President Nicolas Sarkozy’s conservative party, was passed by the lower house
of parliament, the National Assembly, on July 13.
It would outlaw face-covering
veils, including those worn by tourists from the Middle East, on public streets
and elsewhere. The bill set fines of euro150 ($185) or citizenship classes for
any woman caught covering her face, or both. It also carries stiff penalties for
anyone, such as husbands or brothers, convicted of forcing the veil on a woman.
The euro 30,000 ($38,400) fine and year in prison are doubled if the victim is
a minor.
The bill is aimed at ensuring
gender equality, women’s dignity and security, as well as upholding France’s
secular values – and its way of life.
Some women, like Kenza Drider,
have vowed to wear a full-face veil despite a law. Drider says she prefers to
flirt with arrest rather than bow to what she says is an injustice.
"It is a law that is
unlawful," said Drider, a mother of four from Avignon, in southern France.
"It is … against individual liberty, freedom of religion, liberty of
conscience," she said.
"I will continue to live
my life as I always have with my full veil," she told Associated Press
Television News.
Drider was the only woman who
wears a full-faced veil to be interviewed by a parliamentary panel that spent
six months deciding whether to move ahead with legislation.
Muslim leaders concur that
Islam does not require a woman to hide her face. However, they have voiced
concerns that a law forbidding them to do so would stigmatize the French Muslim
population, which at an estimated 5 million is the largest in western Europe.
Numerous Muslim women who wear the face-covering veil have said they are being
increasingly harassed in the streets.
However, the bill has its
Muslim defenders, like a women’s rights group active in heavily immigrant
neighborhoods.
"How can we allow the
burqa here and at the same time fight the Taliban and all the fundamentalist
groups across the world?" said the president of NPNS, Sihem Habchi.
"I’m Muslim and I can’t accept that because I’m a woman I have to
disappear," she told APTN.
Raphael Liogier, a sociology
professor who heads the Observatory of the Religious in Aix-en-Provence, says
that Muslims in France are already targeted by hate-mongers and the ban on
face-covering veils "will officialize Islamophobia."
"With the identity crisis
that France has today, the scapegoat is the Muslim," he told The
Associated Press.
Indeed, the justice minister
said that the French "ask about the future of their society, of their
nation" as they "see the internationalization of our society."
"The Senate must guarantee
the permanence of our values … which forge our identity," she said.
Ironically, instead of helping
some women integrate, the measure may keep them cloistered in their homes to
avoid exposing their faces in public.
"I won’t go out. I’ll send
people to shop for me. I’ll stay home, very simply," said Oum Al Khyr, who
wears a "niqab" that hides all but the eyes.
"I’ll spend my time
praying," said the single woman "over age 45" who lives in
Montreuil on Paris’ eastern edge. "I’ll exclude myself from society when I
wanted to live in it."
The law banning the veil would
take effect only after a six-month period designed to convince women to show
their faces.
The Interior Ministry estimates
the number of women who fully cover themselves at some 1,900, with a quarter of
them converts to Islam and two-thirds with French nationality.
The French parliament wasted no
time in working to get a ban in place, opening an inquiry shortly after the
French president said in June 2009 that full veils that hide the face are
"not welcome" in France.
It was unclear, however, how
police would enforce the law, from handing out fines to hunting down any men
who might force the veil on their wives and daughters.
"I will accept the fine
with great pleasure," said Drider, vowing to appeal to the European Court
of Human Rights in Strasbourg if she gets caught.
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