~ It's as if, in your mind, there is coercion. Those, like me, who demand
> that women be free to dress as they choose, and enjoy every other right
> that men do, are somehow oppressing women.
>
> It's mental gymnastics at an Olympic level.
>
> > "There's no oppression of women in the Islamic world, what are
> >> you raving about??"
> >
> > And then to FABRICATE a quote and attribute it to me is the icing on the cake. You're as characterless as the Trumpanzees pretending that Donald Trump is more than a chimp. It's really hypocritical for you to criticize them.
>
> You're demented.
You're a lying hypocrite and I'm proving it. That doesn't make me demented to anyone other than a lying hypocrite.
'dutch': 'Since we already know which garments are mandatory for women under Islamic custom, if you're going to do anything a ban is much simpler.'
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.gambling.poker/6ThQyqteres/flpM50nBDAAJ
'dutch': 'The ban on the veil is completely reasonable.'
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.gambling.poker/6ThQyqteres/rQpfq0IFDwAJ
'On 10 February 2004 the lower house voted by a large majority (494 for, 36 against, 31 abstentions) in support of the ban . .
The initiators of the law are said to have particularly targeted two items of clothing: the headscarf and the veil (French: foulard and voile respectively); however the law mentions neither and just addresses "ostentatious" ("conspicuous") symbols. Because of its terse, broad, vague terms, the law will leave a lot of its interpretation to the administrative and judicial authorities.
The headscarf (sometimes referred to as the hijab in both French and English) covers the hair, ears, neck, and sometimes the shoulders, but not the face. Most Muslim girls who cover their heads in school wear such a headscarf.
Human Rights Watch stated:[15]
The proposed law is an unwarranted infringement on the right to religious practice. For many Muslims, wearing a headscarf is not only about religious expression, it is about religious obligation.
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom said:
In February 2004, the Commission issued a public statement expressing concern over the proposed new law. The Commission expressed particular concern that the proposed restrictions may violate France’s international human rights commitments. The Commission also stated that though increased immigration in France in recent years has created new challenges for the French government, including integration of these immigrants into French society as well as problems of public order, these challenges should be addressed directly, and not by inappropriately limiting the right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion, and belief. The French government’s promotion of its understanding of the principle of secularism should not result in violations of the internationally recognized individual right to freedom of religion or belief.
In 2012, the United Nations Human Rights Committee stated that the expulsion of a Sikh pupil from his school in 2008 because of his Sikh turban or keski was a violation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights signed by France.'
In some schools, the ban was also applied to long skirts and headbands. In April 2015, a 15-year-old schoolgirl in northeastern France was sent home for wearing a long skirt deemed an "ostentatious sign" of the girl’s Muslim faith by the principal. It caused further controversy and infuriated many of the country’s Muslims, who saw the school system’s censure of the girl as discriminatory. The Collective Against Islamophobia in France has documented 130 similar cases across France between January 2014 and April 2015.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_law_on_secularity_and_conspicuous_religious_symbols_in_schools
'Between 1994 and 2003, around 100 female students were suspended or expelled from middle and high schools for wearing the scarf in class.
The tradition of the headscarf itself has been in existence since before the advent of Islam, and depictions of Mary, mother of Jesus, show her wearing a hair covering. It is not explicitly commanded in the Qur'an yet some consider it a part of tradition.
The importance assigned to head covering varies, from that of colorful head scarves that do not conceal much hair in sub-Saharan Africa, to head scarves that cover the hair and neck to the extent that it should cover all hair, as worn in much of the world, to cloths that cover parts of the face (Yemen), and in Saudi Arabia, the entire body, must be covered by the veil (burqa), as is the case in some areas of Pakistan.
In most Muslim societies, this obligation is not enforced by law.[4] In Egypt and Turkey, for example, wearing the scarf is controversially forbidden in certain professional contexts. In reality, un-veiled Muslim women are a common sight in cities such as Istanbul, Karachi, Islamabad, Rabat, and in Jakarta, Indonesia (the largest Muslim country in the world). However, the obligation is legally enforced in certain countries such as Iran, and those who violate such laws are legally culpable for their dress. Most societies in the Muslim world take a more relaxed approach to the scarf where girls and women can be seen wearing hair coverings of all levels or none at all.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_scarf_controversy_in_France
'Armed police have forced a woman on a beach in Nice to remove her burkini as part of a controversial new ban.
The incident occurred on the beach at the city's Promenade des Anglais, the location of the lorry attack on Bastille Day in which 84 people were killed last month.
Photographs show four police officers armed with handguns, batons and pepper spray standing round the woman who was lying on the beach wearing a blue headscarf and matching top.
After speaking to the woman, she appears to remove the blue long-sleeve top.
She is thought to have been issued with a fine and warned about the new dress code on the beach.
Several women have now been fined in France for wearing the swim wear.
Just let this sink in. Men with guns forcing a woman to undress, with the weight of the law behind them.
pic.twitter.com/4BI16Bbss9
— Abdul-Azim ???? (@AbdulAzim) August 23, 2016
On Tuesday a 34-year-old mother of two, whose family have been French citizens for at least three generations, told French news agency AFP she had been fined on the beach in Cannes, 18 miles from Nice, for wearing leggings, a top and a headscarf.
The former air-hostess from Toulouse was issued a ticket saying she was not wearing “an outfit respecting good morals and secularism”.
“I was sitting on a beach with my family,” she said. “I wasn't even planning to swim, just to dip my feet.”
After initially refusing to undress in front of the officers who were reportedly holding tear gas canisters, she was issued with an on-the-spot fine while other people on the beach allegedly shouted insults, telling her to “go home”.
Mathilde Cusin, a French journalist for France 4 TV, who witnessed the incident, said: “I saw three police officers watching the beach. One of them had his finger on the trigger of his tear gas device, no doubt containing pepper."
“It was pretty violent. I had the impression of a pack going after a woman sitting on the ground, crying with her daughter.”
“The saddest thing was that people were shouting ‘go home’, some were applauding the police,” she said. “Her daughter was crying.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/burkini-swimwear-ban-france-nice-armed-police-hijab-muslim-a7206776.html
'The incoming head of France’s government body on Islam is facing a mounting backlash for suggesting Muslims should be “discreet”.
Jean-Pierre Chevènement, 77, has been charged with heading the Foundation for French Islam by President Francois Hollande – despite not being a Muslim himself.
“The advice I give in these difficult times – like the imam of the Bordeaux mosque - is that of discretion,” the former interior minister told Le Parisien.'
[Because the full power of the state will land upon you if you don't dress the way it demands.]
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/french-politician-chevenement-outrage-muslims-discreet-controversy-burkini-islamaphobia-a7193676.html