No burqas in France? Ruling party moves to ban veils in public. (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News)
Dec 23rd, 2009 by Atlanta House Painter
The French ruling party of President Nicolas Sarkozy now affirms it will present a bill to ban full-length Islamic veils in all public places in France. It won't wait for the results of a parliamentary inquiry into the all-covering niqab and burqa to be published. The move adds fuel to an increasingly hot debate on French identity that has minorities here upset.
