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France Says No to Burqas

July 14, 2010 11:03 AM

By an overwhelming majority, the French National Assembly has banned the wearing of burqas (face-covering veils) in public. Christina Ruffini reports.

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by Number__6 July 19, 2010 1:10 PM EDT
Muslims: They know exactly what Europe is like. They hate western values. They move into Europe anyway. Then they complain about it.

Why don't they simply leave?
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by gearhead1000 July 15, 2010 7:39 AM EDT
WOW. Nice Job FRANCE!!!! About time that someone started to put some laws in place. HEY MUSLIMS ITS THEIR COUNTRY, DONT LIKE IT? THEN LEAVE.
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by m0u5y July 14, 2010 11:16 PM EDT
Wearing a burqa is actually worse than going around schools wearing a trench coat. Not only that, but if any of us women were to go live in a middle eastern country, they definitely wouldn't let us wear our western clothes and we all know what the penalty for that can be.
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by mikelpond July 14, 2010 8:20 PM EDT
In the west a burqa doesn't sheild you from unwanted attention, it attracts attention and shows that you wish to seperate yourself from the society in a vary provocative way. In the west a garment which hides the face is called a disguise; this is a simple cultural fact. The burqa funtions differently in the west than it does in predominantly Muslim countries and to pretend otherwise is delusional. I'm sorry, it's true!
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