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U.S.
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PM for
dramatic reform in legal education system |
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Pakistan agree to restore trust, chart way forward:
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani Thursday
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Arabia to
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Gujarat cop arrested in Sohrabuddin fake encounter case:
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday arrested
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Amnesty
International, Muslim council oppose Belgian burqa bill
Saturday, May 01, 2010 09:24:37 PM,
Raf Casert, Associated Press |
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Brussels:
Belgium's Muslim council and rights group Amnesty International led
the criticism Friday of plans to ban burqa-type Islamic dress in
public.
They condemned Thursday's vote by the House of Representatives to
back a bill which considers burqa-type clothing incompatible with
basic security because everyone in public must be recognizable.
Friday's criticism came as the bill moves to the senate.
It is unclear though when the senate will be able to vote, as
Belgium's government has fallen and elections are expected in
mid-June.
Some Christian Democrats and Liberals in the Senate have questioned
the phrasing of the law, which holds no one can appear in public
“with the face fully or partly covered so as to render them no
longer recognizable.” Amnesty International said the bill is guilty
of the very thing it says it seeks to combat.
It is “being presented as an act to combat discrimination against
women whereas as an actual fact it is an act of discrimination in
itself,” said David Nichols, executive officer Amnesty International
Brussels. “It severely curtails individuals rights to freedom of
expression and freedom of religion.” Isabelle Praile, the vice
president of the Belgian Muslim Council, said the bill was fighting
phantoms. “The burqa for me is something that does not exist in
Belgium but mainly in Afghanistan,” she said.
Last year, the city of Brussels fined only 29 women - down from 33
in 2008 - for wearing a burqa-type dress. In Belgium, local
governments can ban the burqa, but enforcement is spotty and the new
law would outlaw it on a national level.
Praile criticized the proposed law for targeting minorities and
threatening their human rights.
The law's author, Daniel Bacquelaine, a Liberal, said the burqa
clashes with the principles of an emancipated society that respects
the rights of all.
Amnesty International said the Belgian initiative could be followed
by others.
“It sets a very dangerous precedent for other European countries
now,” Nichols told AP Television News.
President Nicolas Sarkozy says the burqa “is not welcome” in France,
but questions have been raised about the constitutionality of a ban.
In France, a nation of 65 million people, the government estimates
1,900 women cover their faces with niqabs, a scarf that exposes only
the eyes, or sitars, a filmy veiled cloth thrown over the head to
cover the entire face.
France banned Muslim head scarves as well as Jewish skullcaps and
Christian crosses from schools in 2004.
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