Spain Votes to Ban the Burqa
I had to read this twice and then rub my eyes and read it again! Spain with its obscene foreign policy strategy to play blackmail to Arab terrorism to protect themselves and denigrate Israel as well as heap praise on how Islam is another great civilization now joins Belgium, France and Switzerland with moves that would cause advocates of political correctness in the U.S. to be aghast – banning the burqa and niqab.
Spain and Belgium wanted to put Ariel Sharon on trial in their own countries! Now the people through their representatives have begun to sense where the real existential threat against their own identity, traditions and liberty come from.
Raphael Minder writes in the New York Times, June 23:
MADRID -- In a significant escalation of Spain's debate over how to handle radical Islam, the Senate on Wednesday narrowly and unexpectedly approved a motion to ban Muslim women from wearing in public the burqa or other garments that cover the whole body.
The vote, 131 to 129, was another setback for the Socialist government of Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, which had favored more-limited restrictions on Islamic clothing and has instead been pushing to curtail religious fundamentalism through better education.
The Spanish vote comes amid several national initiatives across Europe to restrict the spread of radical Islam and defend liberal values. [...]
The motion adopted by the senators calls on Spain to outlaw "any usage, custom or discriminatory practice that limits the freedom of women." It was drafted and led by politicians from the main center-right opposition People's Party. [...]
The Senate's position also came as a surprise because although Spain has become a major European entry point for Muslim migrants from North Africa, few of those immigrants wear either the burqa or the niqab, which does not cover the eyes. A similar argument has also been made by opponents of a burqa ban in countries like France, where only an estimated 100,000 women wear the burqa out of a Muslim population of about 5 million. France, however, already passed a law in 2004 to ban head scarves or any other "conspicuous" religious symbol from state schools in order to preserve their secularism.
The Spanish government is supposed to follow the Senate's motion. However, given that Socialist senators opposed the ban, the governing party is likely to seek ways to circumvent the vote....
(hat tip: Jihadwatch)
Posted on 06/24/2010 7:23 AM by Norman Berdichevsky
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