December 9th, 2010 The new Civic Ordinance prohibiting the wearing of the burqa and the niqab in buildings and municipal facilities enters into force in Lleida. The offenders face fines of up to 600 euros. The socialist mayor claims to be proud that “Lleida is the first city in Spain that regulates clearly an element…
December 3 2010 Home Affairs Minister Piet Hein Donner considered the implications of a burqa ban in his comments to MPs on Thursday. Donner noted his attempt to draft “legislation on face-covering which will apply to all Dutch nationals”. While this outlaws the burqa, the minister noted he still has “to decide how far to…
News Agencies – October 1, 2010 Two French female students have made a film of the pair of them strolling through the streets of Paris in a niqab, bare legs and mini-shorts as a critique of France’s recently passed law. Calling themselves the “Niqabitches,” the veiled ladies can be seen strutting past prime ministerial offices…
September 14, 2010 The parliament of the canton of Aargau has voted a motion addressed to the federal government calling for a ban of burqas in public spaces. The motion was supported by right-wing parties, while the Socialist head of the Interior Department, Urs Hofmann, stated that it “brought nothing new in terms of security”…
In a radio debate between Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt (moderate) and leader of the opposition Mona Sahlin (social democrat), Reinfeldt refused to give a straight answer on the possibility of banning of burqas in Sweden. “We don’t need to hide our faces in this way in Sweden”, Reinfeldt said. Sahlin said she was against…
