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France's burka ban: how can it be enforced?
From today, it is illegal here in France to wear the face-covering veil in public. Any woman caught wearing the burka or niqab will face a fine and will be asked to take citizenship lessons. It is thought that in France, which is home to Europe’s largest Muslim population, the new law will affect around 2,000 women currently believed to wear the full veil. So was this law really necessary, and how will it be enforced?
Programme prepared by Diaraye Bah and Charlotte Oberti
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burka
good for france in my mind its not even about religion but about liberating women from covering up,getting hot, their children can see them, eating out freely(very hard to eat with burka on,i watched 2 women in pizza hut in Cairo!!!) men don't wear them maybe they should try it!!!!
enforcement
With extreme difficulty, initially, if insane business people pay the fines they incur for wearing it.
Such actions should be themselves subjected to legal process.
It's not a 'loan', he is paying off, but a PENALTY brought on themselves for flouting a democratically passed law.
If he pays the fine for a member of his immediate family, fair enough, but he has decided to go beyond that, and is therefore attempting to, even encouraging Muslim women, to treat the law with contempt.
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