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A law to ban the full face veil in France?

Marc Perelman interviews Jacques Myard, UMP MP ; Sandrine Mazetier, Socialist MP ; Amel Boubekeur, Associate Scholar, Carnegie Middle East Center, and Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor, Reuters.

POLITICS

Click here to watch part 2 with Jaques Myard, Sandrine Mazetier, Amel Boubekeur and Tom Heneghan.

Marc Perelman

French Politics Editor

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liberty

by Anonyme - 06/02/2010 - 19:33

where is the liberty, where is the freedom of faith? it can be dignity for you but not for them so let them live the way they want as for as they are not harming you.

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A law to ban the wearing of face veil in france

by Anonyme - 27/01/2010 - 05:05

Wearing a veil or covering over you face should not be allowed ,This is a trying time for the world with suside bombers going into public places . All countries have a right to keep their citizens safe and also the people who visit , the using of a veil can be a decoy for any one to just walk in a crowd and blow up everything around them . Suside bombers do not value their life or the lives of others ,so everyone must do their part even if it upsets a small few .

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Ban the Burqa

by Anonyme - 26/01/2010 - 20:51

Re: Ban the Burqa.

I support France’s ban of the Burqa, in my opinion anything that encourages the worlds people of the twenty-first century to grow up and shed the oppressive and ludicrous beliefs in magical gods has to be a good idea.
I am a huge political sceptic and have no doubt that all sorts of people will be supporting or objecting to this move for their own self serving political motivations but religion is on its way out and anything that speeds it up has to be a good thing.

Reg Whittall

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Full Face Veil

by Anonyme - 26/01/2010 - 19:34

Hi Iam a muslem but full face veil is not good and it should be baned but what should be accepted is head veil not face.
The problem is that people have mixed face veil with political issues and social feels and they are looking at it as social discrimination rather than pointing out the importance of setting the acceptable social veil standard that every one would be happy with.
Yours Bakundana Ismail Adam
bakunda2005@yahoo.com

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