A parliamentary committee today voted unanimously for burkas, niqabs and other veils that cover the face to be outlawed from public places.
The draft law now goes to a full debate and vote among MPs on April 22 and, if passed, is sure to raise questions about the violation of human rights.
‘We cannot allow someone to claim the right to look at others without being seen,’ said Daniel Bacquelaine, who proposed the bill.
‘It is necessary that the law forbids the wearing of clothes that totally mask and encloses an individual,’ he said.
‘Wearing the burka in public is not compatible with an open, liberal, tolerant society,’ he said. He was not targeting the classic headscarf worn by many women among the 620,000 Muslims in the country.
All five parties in Belgium’s coalition government have backed a ban.
The move came a day after France’s Council of State said there appeared to be ‘no legally unchallengeable justification’ for any similar ban there.
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Annual Brussels weekend, November 26-28. A weekend full of fun with plenty of sight seeing, good times, and a HUGE party with UEJB!
Police decoys have helped reduce street crime. The “decoy Jew” has now been added to the police attributes.
Despite volcanic disruptions to European air travel, 150 Europeans traveled to New York for the first transatlantic ECJS event May 6-10.
Ostrove told the Winnipeg Jewish Review that he had the opportunity to talk to a lot of European Jewish students, ages 18-35, about the their concerns, including anti-Semitism.
