French officials rule burqa ban legal

Remember: France standing up for its cultural and societal identity is "hatred" and "Islamophobia." Islamic countries standing up for their cultural and societal identities is a legitimate self-assertion. "Officials rule France burqa ban legal," from CNN, October 7 (thanks to Mackie):

France's plan to ban the burqa and other Islamic face coverings in public places is legal, top constitutional authorities in France ruled Thursday, clearing the final hurdle before the ban becomes law....

French people back the ban by a margin of more than four to one, the Pew Global Attitudes Project found in a survey earlier this year.

Some 82 percent of people polled approved of a ban, while 17 percent disapproved. That was the widest support the Washington-based think tank found in any of the five countries it surveyed.

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Oh Dear God, THANK YOU!

All free Civilized cultures must Support France as there are sure to be a backlash from the islamofacists world.

This is not even close to being finished yet! However, we must fight to keep going stronger than ever to PREVENT ISLAMOFACISM in our Lives in our Culture!

Viva La France!!!

French: Start saving your culture and your country from the Islamic Barbarians NOW. Before it's too late.

Stop further immigration, as Geert Wilders would suggest, and start deporting.

while this is excellent, please brace for riots, and terrorist attacks.

And remember, if Christian missionaries proselytize in Dar al-Islam, it's cultural imperialism and Crusading. This is bad.

If Muslims practice dawa (and therefore taqiyya) in the West, it is multiculturalism. This is good.

"...while 17% disapproved [of the burqa ban]." That is getting close to the percentage of Muslims in France. Not much support outside their own community at this point.

It doesn't say which five countries were surveyed but I would bet they are democracies and the four that polled less don't have 10% muslim population that France has. It continues to amaze me that even with the insignificant % in the US they are a royal pain in the ass already. Constantly bombarded and always pushing. I dread to imagine the trouble they would cause in the US if they were 10% of the population. Maybe I read JW too much but I've had enough of mohammedans already.

Special Guest,

That's just the way they want it so it can used as us vs. them. They don't want to be a part of French society and couldn't give a damn about French culture or what the French think. They are there for one reason only; to get rid of the French.

"...while 17% disapproved [of the burqa ban]." That is getting close to the percentage of Muslims in France. Not much support outside their own community at this point."

Exactly. La Belle France has GOT to save itself from the Islamic Barbarians.

How Muslims take over.

Islam is not a religion, nor is it a cult.

In its fullest form, it is a complete, total, 100% system of life.

Islam has religious, legal, political, economic, social, and military components. The religious component is a mask for all of the other components.

Islamization begins when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their "religious" privileges.

When politically correct, tolerant, and culturally diverse societies agree to Muslim demands for their religious privileges, some of the other components tend to creep in as well.

As long as the Muslim population remains around or under 2% in any given country, they will be for the most part be regarded as a peace-loving minority, and not as a threat to other citizens. This is the case in:

United States — Muslim 0.6%
Australia — Muslim 1.5%
Canada — Muslim 1.9%
China — Muslim 1.8%
Italy — Muslim 1.5%
Norway — Muslim 1.8%

At 2% to 5%, they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups, often with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs. This is happening in:

Denmark — Muslim 2%
Germany — Muslim 3.7%
United Kingdom — Muslim 2.7%
Spain — Muslim 4%
Thailand — Muslim 4.6%

From 5% on, they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. For example, they will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves — along with threats for failure to comply. This is occurring in:

France — Muslim 8%
Philippines — 5%
Sweden — Muslim 5%
Switzerland — Muslim 4.3%
The Netherlands — Muslim 5.

From 5% on, they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. For example, they will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves — along with threats for failure to comply. This is occurring in:

France — Muslim 8%
Philippines — 5%
Sweden — Muslim 5%
Switzerland — Muslim 4.3%
The Netherlands — Muslim 5.5%
Trinidad & Tobago — Muslim 5.8%

At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves (within their ghettos) under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islamists is to establish Sharia law over the entire world.

When Muslims approach 10% of the population, they tend to increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions. In Paris , we are already seeing car-burnings. In Russia, grade-schools were attacked. Any non-Muslim action offends Islam and results in uprisings and threats, such as in Amsterdam, with opposition to Mohammed cartoons and films about Islam. Such tensions are seen daily, particularly in Muslim sections, in:

Guyana — Muslim 10%
India — Muslim 13.4%
Israel — Muslim 16%
Kenya — Muslim 10%
Russia — Muslim 15%

After reaching 20%, nations can expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings, and the burnings of Christian churches and Jewish synagogues, such as in:

Ethiopia — Muslim 32.8%

At 40%, nations experience widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks, and ongoing militia warfare, such as in:Bosnia — Muslim 40%

Chad — Muslim 53.1%
Lebanon — Muslim 59.7%

From 60%, nations experience unfettered persecution of non-believers of all other religions (including non-conforming Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon, and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels, such as in:

Albania — Muslim 70%
Malaysia — Muslim 60.4%
Qatar — Muslim 77.5%
Sudan — Muslim 70%

As 'Loyal Infidel' said above: Vive la France!

This is excellent. For three hundred years, at least, the French have been the arbiters of female fashion in Europe and, indeed, beyond. I was not in the least surprised that the French, so deeply culturally conscious of the meaning of feminine dress, instinctively chose the burqa (and, indeed, the Muslim veil as such - after all, they banned the hijab in state schools) as the point where they would begin to practise saying 'No!' to Muslims.

Of course, apart from all the other things signified by this ugly Slave Mask, all of them bad, it is indisputably by far the most ugly thing that any culture has ever demanded that a woman wear in public. The streets of Paris and of other cities will be more pleasing, more attractive to tourists and to the non-Muslim locals, without the black faceless ghosts.

Who will be first to follow the sartorial example of the French? Anybody care to start a betting pool?

The Italians? (all they have to do is resolutely enforce existing law about face coverings, I believe)...the Italians have been competing vigorously with France, in the matter of haute couture, for a good long time, they really ought not to fall behind.

The Dutch? The Danes? The Swiss, who have already proposed to cut vaunting Muslim ostentation down to size, by banning minarets?

I recommend that all of us here who support the French ban on the burqa should now write forthwith to the French ambassadors in our respective countries, stating our unequivocal approval of this excellent French law; and *also* stating our unhesitating support for whatever measures France may need to take to *enforce* that law.

We have got to let the French know that across the free non-Muslim world (it would be good if they were to get letters of support from, example, jihadwatchers in India), people will be *cheering* for them, rather than carping at them, if so be they have to send in the army to squash Mohammedan 'burqa riots' in the banlieues, and if - following the suppression of such riots - they find it necessary to evict hostile, dangerous and treacherous Muslims from their soil in large numbers.

And letters to the editors in our national newspapers praising the French burqa ban and saying what a terrific thing it would be if our own nations did the same, and letters to our elected representatives, calling for a burqa ban in *our* countries on grounds of public safety and on the grounds that we should clearly oppose the principle of enslavement and degradation of women that is represented by that ghastly garment, would also be in order.

Next hurdle - enforcement. Failure to enforce this will be worse than if the ban were never passed. The police will need to be prepared for forceful and determined confrontations, something I am convinced they loathe...

You need to create a chart or some visual tool to highlight this...perhaps ending with flames or mushroom cloud...

Europe is offered a sobering video (found at the end of this article),

http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2010/10/07/german-chancellor-muslims-must-obey-german-law-not-sharia-law/

This is the would-be fate of any country which will not resist the Muslim onslaught. For Muslims, attacking the West is Allah (GINO) inspired. In fact, such attacks and resulting killing is part of the commandments of the Moon God.

This is Paris today!

http://downloads.cbn.com/cbnnewsplayer/cbnplayer.swf?aid=17933


We all must be on the same course with regards to muslim poulations and sharia law...These are small wins and are great signs, but we can NEVER forget...


"IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO BEHEAD THE SNAKE(islam)
...WE MUST ALWAYS BE ON CONSTANT VIGIL"

This is good. it is a sign and symbol of their degradation and hatefulness towards women.
This is not all which needs to be banned regarding Islam, if we are to be safe, although it is a step, (too late) in the right direction.
Finally, the French people are beginning to see what unlimited tolerance towards tyranny resulted in.

May I post this here about Geert Wilder's persecution and prosecution trial?
it would not allow me to post it over there:

I think the Netherlands will NEVER live this travesty down down, ever, for doing this terrible thing to their brave, truthful man.
He is my beloved hero FOREVER.

INFIDELS, UNITE! He and all other savaged, persecuted defenders of free infidel lands and people need ALL of our protesting voices and letters.

This tyranny will only stop when we all energetically, diligently oppose it together. We must not give up.

He is our brave and unflinching warrior, and he's in the corrupt judicial gauntlet on our behalf.

This is one of the few occasions where I will agree with some of the sentiment in these threads. The nature of French secularism is absolutely opposed to public displays of religious affectations. My own French relatives are highly irreligious people though they had a rather kooky outlook. For example, my great great grandmother was convinced that the priests and nuns were having affairs and burying their shameful offspring in the churchyard.

Anyway, this decision fits in very well with French secularism and I would not expect much different. Elsewhere, I don't really think this kind of ruling fits. If the problem is coercion, then we should ban the coercion and not the outfit. If the problem is that Muslim women are refusing to identify themselves before officers of the law, then they should be fined. Concerns over public safety or the degradation of the host culture though are flimsy. There's relatively few cases of robberies attributed to a niqab or burqa. I'd wager more men have held up banks in a dress and wig looking like Madea than they have in Islamic garb, surely we must ban Tyler Perry movies... (well, we should anyway)

I would not be surprised if the French ended up banning religion entirely some time in the future.

Meh. My wife keeps her head covered and I've even gone to great lengths to tell her not to! She's far removed from her family in Indonesia, so that's not really the issue. What she does believe is that such a religious affectation is required by God much in the same way that an observant Jewish woman might sport a fantastic wig...

I've actually suggested that route, she wasn't amused. She believes quite firmly that this is the way Allah (subhana wa t'ala) chose for her. Never has she mentioned an urge to cover her face, though we both support those who wish to wear a face veil provided they meet certain criteria.

1.) The Muslim must be willing to unveil for authorities.

2.) The veil can not be worn in the public secular sphere i.e. courtrooms, public schools or banks.

3.) The veil can not worn under duress.

"Some 82 percent of people polled approved of a ban, while 17 percent disapproved."

Finally, an accurate count of how many Muslims are living in France!

The newly forming/formed dutch government under Rutte & Verhagen has together with Wilders formed a government agreement ? I don't know what you call it in english. Among it, is a plan a ban on all face covering clothing, which would include the burqa, and a ban on hijab for judges, prosecutors and police. I hope it comes through, but the opposition parties are gonna fight it tooth and nail I bet.
It's a nice gesture, but personally I think it's only fighting the symptoms, not the disease itself. As long as people believe islam is merely a religion, and as long as we don't make a stand and defend our culture and heritage, it won't help.

Italy move to ban the burka

Italy is set to become the next country in Europe to issue a burka ban after the government presented a draft proposal to parliament.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/8049108/Italy-move-to-ban-the-burka.html

Italy to become next European country to ban burka after government report recommends forbidding it in public

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1318498/Italy-European-country-ban-burka-government-recommendation.html#ixzz11iJJ4pAC

... personally I think it's only fighting the symptoms, not the disease itself. As long as people believe islam is merely a religion, and as long as we don't make a stand and defend our culture and heritage, it won't help

Correct, sumdum!

We are not being invaded by burquas, but muzzlums. Stopping burquas doesn't stop the invasion. On the contrary; banning burqua creates a dangerous illusion that "something his happening" and we are "moving in the right direction".

Really, what is the true significance of burqua ban in if the French President believes the islamization of Europe is inevitable?

look here:
www.jihadwatch.org/2009/06/sarkozy-the-islamization-of-europe-is-inevitable.html

When France is islamified, or only half-islamified, the burqua ban will be first to be banned.

The veil can not worn under duress....

Define duress. Is a husband who threatens violence duress? How about a daddy or big brother who insist with the implicit threat of an honor killing hanging in the background? What exactly is duress? And once under duress what help is a feeble insistence that purdah not be enforced by threats and even murder?

"The veil can not worn under duress." is a cop out. Of course it can and often IS. It is the sick culture which empowers the hubby, daddy, and brother mentioned above which must be condemned.

nabi ZK (pbum)

VICTORY, YEAH!

France WILL remain French and free!

"but personally I think it's only fighting the symptoms,"

I tend to agree that we are dealing with a symptom, but like the Qur'an (not) being burned or the GZ mosque, both here in the U.S., these situations are becoming flashpoints; citizens in free nations are reaching their limits. And I don't mind if it's a burqa or the demand that the religion of hate be exclusively 'respected,' the fuses are being lit round the world.

Maybe it isn't too late.

That's a maybe still

The five countries were: France, Germany, Spain, the U.K., and the U.S.
France-----------ban supported by 82%
Germany----------ban supported by 71%
Spain------------ban supported by 59%
U.K.-------------ban supported by 62%
U.S.----------------------------------ban opposed by 65%

In Europe, the ban was supported all across the spectrum: on both Left and Right a majority supported the ban, although the majority was larger on the Right; and among both young and old a majority supported the ban, although the majority was larger among the old.

Enforcement of the face mask ban must be swift and out of sight. As soon as a burqa clad female is spotted, cell phones should be reporting it to local police, toute suite, their phones at police stations should be ringing of their hooks. Then unmarked cars swoop down on the black clad masked 'slaves of islam' and whisked away before any of their 'religion of peace' slaves can raise a riot. Fait accompli. Vite, vite.

@ GerbilTea
"If the problem is coercion, then we should ban the coercion and not the outfit."

And therein lies the problem. Define coercion.
Mild, male disapproval: advice by a male Muslim to wear the burqa: an appeal to Islamic values of modesty: a clear instruction to wear it: threats: physical force?

No. Banning the outfit is the simplest way to solve the problem. Then the situation is black and white.

How can I go out with my uncovered wife on "date night?"

The new cabinet in The Netherlands which will be formed this week by Mark Rutte, consisting of VVD (Mark Rutte as PM) and CDA (Maxime Verhagen as vice-PM)supported by Geert Wilders' PVV in parliament, will ban the burqa by law.
The "head-shawl" will also be banned for all public servants in public buildings.


Erik Mokum from Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Don't expect this DUMMY, I mean DHIMMI, to do the same in the D.K.(Disunited Kingdom...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody_of_brum/4993537589/in/set-72157624527247651/

Banning the burka is not just for law enforcement identification purposes or because it looks creepy to some people, it is a deliberate slap in the face of Islamic supremacy, it is the French gov telling Islam that 'we' set the rules around here, not you'...Don't expect Islam to 'turn the other cheek'...Allah has no cheeks...

Now if the United States would follow suit. I'm sick of tolerating this crap. If they don't like the laws of a country, they can go to the Middle Eastern countries, where they can wear the burqa freely and worship Allah. I am for religious freedom, but this is not a religion to me - it is a political organization which rules people through fear and torture. We must make sure that it is not allowed here.

Seeing as how wearing in public a burka or hijab is making a statement i for one when passing by such must state: "Freedom".

France is just so full of surprises, since they are generally known for being cowardly. "BAN THE BURQA!" Hey this is great news! And the burqa is such a fashion Don't and ghoulish looking beyond compare (but it does suit the death cult that it represents). At any rate, Yay to the banning! Now if they could only ban the death cult itself: islam. One step at a time. I can dream, can't I ...

"I recommend that all of us here who support the French ban on the burqa should now write forthwith to the French ambassadors in our respective countries, stating our unequivocal approval of this excellent French law; and *also* stating our unhesitating support for whatever measures France may need to take to *enforce* that law."

I think this is a very good idea, dumbledore. But I am not good at getting a letter started; I wonder if you would be kind enough to post some boiler-plate that could be re-used by others on the list as a take-off point.

Also, I tried several web searches looking for an email address to any of the French Consulates in the United States and I was unable to find a single one. Again, perhaps my lack of skill at this; I would appreciate if you could post some or even one of email addresses of French Consulates.

Thank you; sorry for the delay, couldn't log on to typepad yesterday -- don't know why -- ; best regards from California.

Although France has decreed the ban legal, the EU authorities will probably decide it is against EU law and as the EU is getting rid of Nation States by taking their powers one by one over the years, their wishes will take precedence.

It is disgusting but I don't believe France can make that unilateral decision anymore. I am hoping to be proved wrong.

Jonathan

I'm surprised you couldn't find the French Embassy in the USA, 'The Embassy of France in Washington'.

Here's their website.

http://www.ambafrance-us.org/spip.php?rubrique2

They have a statement about the burqa ban right there, hot off the press.

http://www.ambafrance-us.org/spip.php?article1889

The current Ambassador (2010) is Pierre Vimont.

The Embassy has a 'Press and Communication Office', and clicking on that told me the following:

Address (I think this is the address of the Embassy)

4101 Reservoir Road, NW
Washington, DC 20007

Téléphone
(202) 944-6060
Fax
(202) 944-6040

E-mail: info@ambafrance-us.org

I would assume that an email titled something like 'to the ambassador, congratulating France on burqa ban', sent to the email provided above, would get into his in-tray eventually. And you could just address a snail-mail letter to The Ambassador, c/o the postal address given.

Here is a slightly edited version of the email that I sent to the French ambassador to Australia, by way of a similar email address provided for the French Embassy in Canberra, on Bastille Day this year, when the Burqa Ban passed its first hurdle:

"Your Excellency

'I write as an ordinary Australian citizen to convey to you and to the government of France the sincere joy that I felt when, this morning, I read that "the lower house of the French parliament has voted to ban the Islamic face veil in public spaces".

'It is most appropriate that today, as Bastille Day dawns in the Southern hemisphere, we should have received the news of that vote which is the first stage of the formal and official rejection, on French soil, of that ugly garment which is, for millions of women in the world of Islam, nothing other than a sort of portable prison, a sign of enslavement.

'Vive la France! Vive la liberte!'

'Yours faithfully..'.

And here is part of the follow-up letter (on paper, signed) that I sent to the postal address of the French Embassy in Canberra, a couple of days after sending the email:

'Your Excellency

'I write as an ordinary Australian citizen, to convey to you and to the Government of France the joy that I felt when I read this morning, in the Australian Broadcasting Commission news online, the good news that “the lower house of the French parliament has voted to ban the Islamic face veil in public spaces”.

'I myself have long been opposed to the burqa and niqab, both because of the obvious security risk entailed in having people going about in public whose faces and facial expressions, and even gender, cannot be immediately identified, but also because the Muslim female slave mask and cloak, the niqab and burqa, are a major impediment to – and indeed a conscious and deliberate rejection of - normal social interaction in our free and open societies.

'And, too, I am fully in accord with the views of M. le President Sarkozy, as stated at the time this ban was first proposed:

“The burqa is not a sign of religion. It is a sign of enslavement. It is a sign of subservience”....

'On 14 May this year I read an Agence France-Presse report on the progress of this legislation: “Parliament to declare the full veil ‘contrary to national values’”...

'[French] Lawmakers declared that "radical practices which violate the dignity and equality between men and women, such as the wearing of the full veil, are contrary to the values of the republic."

'I was impressed, too, by the words of M le President Sarkozy, as reported in another article on the subject by the Australian ABC’s Emma Alberici, on 20 May – ‘French Cabinet approves draft burka ban’:

"We are an old nation united around a certain idea of human dignity, and in particular of a woman's dignity, around a certain idea of how to live together," Mr Sarkozy said.
"The full veil that hides the face completely harms those values, which are so fundamental to us, so essential to the republican compact."

'Beautiful. I applaud...

'It is my hope that this law will swiftly pass the French senate in September.

'When France bans the burqa and niqab from the public square it will be a significant reassertion of her foundational principles of ‘liberte, egalite, fraternite’ and will set a very important example for all other free non-Muslim countries...

'There is one additional point I would like to make, however, Excellency, based on my awareness of the Muslim mindset as described by, for example, the Danish psychologist Nicolai Sennels, and as displayed in what I will call Pope Rage (the Muslim response to Benedict XVI’s ‘Regensburg address’) and Cartoon Rage (the Muslim assault upon the Danish cartoonists).

'The government of France, the moment this ban becomes law and begins to be applied, will have to be prepared to use riot police or even the army to nip in the bud even the smallest hint of Muslim-instigated public disorder that may be attempted in response to the ban.

'In that regard I call to mind the words of Monsieur Manuel Valls who was present at a meeting of Ni Putes Ni Soumises which was held to discuss the ban on the burqa, and which was disrupted by a band of violent Muslim sharia-pushers.

“Manuel Valls, a member of the French Socialist Party, which supports the ban on the burqa, was present “when the riots broke out. According to him, instead of dissuading him, the incident has only given impetus to his belief that the law should be established. ‘I feel that this case comes to try the Republic and its representatives and I for one won’t be intimidated’ he said.”

'Yes. Do not be intimidated.

'Arrest, punish, and even deport, in short order, any and all Muslims who are caught repeatedly flouting the ban, or inciting or forcing others to do so, or inciting riot and mayhem.

'France will also require resolve to apply and enforce the rule of ‘no face veil in public’ not only upon Muslims resident in France, but upon Muslim female tourists, the wives and concubines of assorted sheikhs, ‘princes’ and businessmen. Courage, mes amis.

'You may, however, be surprised at how quickly the Muslims capitulate, so long as you are resolute, and if you are prepared to apply overwhelming force as necessary.

'All over the free world people like me are on the edge of our seats watching and most earnestly hoping that France, as well as Spain and Belgium, can muster the courage and the will - having enacted this necessary and rational law – to enforce it.

'We will be watching, and we will be cheering you on...

'Vive la France! Vive la liberte!".


Jonathan, you and others should not need to change very much of this, in order to create your own 'letter to the Ambassador'.


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