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Man who forced wife to wear burqa is denied French citizenship

Immigration Minister Eric Besson said Tuesday that French citizenship has been denied to a man for forcing his wife to wear a head-to-toe veil and for rejecting the principles of secularism and equality between men and women.

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AFP - A foreign national who forced his French wife to wear the full Islamic veil will be denied French citizenship, the immigration minister said Tuesday.

Eric Besson said he had signed a decree rejecting the man's citizenship application after it emerged that he had ordered his wife to cover herself with the head-to-toe veil.

"It emerged during the inquiry and the interview process that this person forced his wife to wear the full veil, deprived her of freedom of movement with her face exposed and rejected the principles of secularism and equality between men and women," said Besson in a statement.

The man's name and nationality were not made public.

The decision came after a parliament report last week called for a ban on the full Islamic veil in all schools, hospitals, government offices and public transport.

The French government is seeking legal advice before drafting legislation that would outlaw the burqa or niqab in as many areas as possible, Prime Minister Francois Fillon has said.

President Nicolas Sarkozy has proclaimed the burqa "not welcome" in secular France and come out in favour of legislation to outlaw the veil, but has warned against stigmatising Muslims.

Home to Europe's biggest Muslim minority, France has been debating whether to ban the burqa that is worn by a small group of women -- about 1,900, according to the interior ministry.

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Justice Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said last month that Muslim men who force their wives to wear the full veil should not be granted French citizenship.

A French court denied citizenship to a veiled Moroccan woman on the grounds that her "radical" practice of Islam was incompatible with French values.

 

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Well done! I hope the other

Well done! I hope the other European countries will follow suit!

my country is getting mad!!

Hi.i think this law is completly stupid,non sense and is absolutly not the main priority in this economic crisis time!state and religion are supposed to be separate as far as i am concern!!once again citizens are fooled.this gouvernment and co must think we are stupid or what??it's only less than 2000 women cases concerned in a population of narly 70 000 000.please give us a break and start doing your job you were elected for.!!.more jobs,more education,less taxes...""liberty egality franternity"".this law will never be apply because simply it is inappropriated(breaking human right and a european court will remind you that).what do exactly this women?they just want to have the ultime controle of their body.it does not bother me at all.i think if we keep digging we will find out the real goal of this problem!!keep citizens busy and away from real issues and problem!!after check find out that islam is a beautiful and peaceful religion!!a tous mes compatriotes francais...reveillez-vous!!

burka/niquab

Personally I would not be concerned if ALL these immigrants cover up, having spent some years in the cradle of Islam, I found it was only the poorer element who kept up this irritating practice, and having seen a few with their faces uncovered, I would suggest they do us a favour by being obscured.

It baffles me why the males think that their women would be ogled, unless they really mean they think an ordinary male with ordinary feelings go for such ugliness.

I suggest to those man they should get their women folk to encase their feet in covering footwear, because not only do I feel outraged by the fact they cannot be seen facially, but that their feet are usually an horrendous sight.

I am sorry to say, the covering is on the wrong end of their body if anything.

are they saying 'burqa' when

are they saying 'burqa' when they mean 'niqab'?

If you had ever worn a burka

for five minutes, or tried to walk about and do the daily shopping for two minutes in one, you would know no one would ever willing choose this. It is something these women are brain washed into, clearly. Aside from this whole issue...Safety. Safety of those around these wears as who knows what they have under there. Safety of the women themselves as they can not safely walk ten steps in them. I can't blame emergency personnel if they don't want to have to scrape one of them up off the pavement after she steps out in front of a car she was unable to see at a street corner. It is no different than emergency personnel who encourage seat belt wearing because they are tired of seeing people killed in horrendous grisly ways because they didn't wear them.
Besides that, the original desire to ban burkas was only to promote two things dear to my heart and to the hearts of all good French. Secularism, which wants only to ensure you CAN practice any religion you want in the private of your home or religious buildings (church, synagogue, whatever) and not let any feel their religion supersedes yours in the eyes of any, including the government, is the goal and I think it is an excellent goal. These people should be happy greater minds are trying to reach for a loftier goal, but of course they are not. Their only goal is to impress their religion on others and deprive them of the right to enjoy their own. Nothing in the Muslim writings ever in any way even asks these burkas of the women, and good, honest Muslims abhor them. I say we should be doing everything in our power to help these poor women throw off the oppression they have been so brain washed and beaten down as to not even recognize anymore, deluded as they are into believing they ever had any opportunity to choose other than the burka, seeing as they will be murdered in the most gruesome way possible by those who claim to love them best should they stick their noses outside without them. How can there ever be any choice where coercion is the basic mode of conversion to the practice?

i love the french!!!!!!

long live secularism!!!

France/Europe are not Iran

Citizen should be judged according to his virtue as a citizen and not according to his beliefs. However, when a person imposes his the customs of his religion or culture he came from, he creates harassment and hostility. Harassment imposed on that person of the same laws and culture or religion and hostility to the people around them who cannot interfere on behalf of respect privacy. Therefor this acts - Banning the borqa and Indicate increasing resistance to Islamic culture and attributes are understandable. Europe is a salad of false equality. And though it fake, no external causes may be more dominant than others by trying to instill the reality in which he lives. If he wants to continue living in the same cultural reality in which he lived before he should go back to where he came from or accept the fact that he should fit in and help to create something new as part of the local culture and not instead of.

about time

about time a government came along with some back bone....
UK government is vote led decisions :(

burqa

well done to the french goverment. about time some one stud up

Banning the Burqa

The burqa is ment to hide the beauty of the wearer. Muslim women are so beautiful that seeing them makes men go insane.To look upon a a women with a burqa is very romantic. It gives you something to desire, as western women with her boobs falling out of shirt pretty much shows all.The only objection I would have is how bad these beauties smell on a hot day wearing that thing.

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