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Congo Republic bans full-face veil for security reasons

May 3, 2015 11:21 am By Robert Spencer

Niqab“Together with authorities, we recognized that there were non-Muslims and badly intentioned people making use of the veil to carry out unauthorized acts.” Oh, and Islamic jihad mass murderers.

“Congo Republic bans full-face veil for security reasons,” Reuters, May 2, 2015:

(Reuters) – Authorities in Congo Republic will impose a ban on wearing the full-face Islamic veil in public in order to tackle a security threat from people using it to conceal their identity, the head of the Congo’s Islamic Council said on Saturday.

Many of the Muslims in the oil-producing central African country come from French-speaking West Africa or Arab nations, Bopaka said. Less than 10 percent of Congo’s 5 million citizens are believed to be Muslim.

Neighbor Cameroon has been plagued by attacks by Islamist militant group Boko Haram in its northern region. Thousands of refugees have also fled to Congo from neighboring Central African Republic, where Christian militia have targeted Muslims in the south of the country.

Islamic Council head Djibril Abdoulaye Bopaka said Congo’s Islamic community, which he estimated at some 800,000 people, was in agreement with the measure after what he said were reports of individuals using this kind of veil to carry out illegal acts.

“The government took this step based on what was happening in the neighboring countries and the rest of the world,” Bopaka said. “We regard this as a legitimate step for the security of the country.”

“Together with authorities, we recognized that there were non-Muslims and badly intentioned people making use of the veil to carry out unauthorized acts,” he told Radio France International….

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  1. Susan says

    May 3, 2015 at 12:05 pm

    It is not rocket science. All countries need to ban the veil for security reasons and for the recognition of females being independent human beings not the property of males.

    • Champ says

      May 3, 2015 at 12:15 pm

      Indeed, Susan!

      • Roy Mears says

        May 3, 2015 at 4:47 pm

        https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ban-the-Burka-in-North-America/380704858773072

    • abad says

      May 3, 2015 at 1:52 pm

      Right you are, Susan.

    • nicu says

      May 3, 2015 at 4:43 pm

      Well done !

      Seems we can learn from some African countries like Nigeria , Angola and now Congo .

      They don’t care about political correctness !

    • particolor says

      May 4, 2015 at 9:00 am

      Have they just woken up that there could be a Rock Spider hiding inside that Tent ?

    • mortimer says

      May 4, 2015 at 10:21 am

      The Koran declares the Islamic veil is worn so women ‘will not be molested’. (Koran 33.59)

      Who is doing the ‘molesting’? Why Muslim males. They are not permitted to ‘molest’ Muslim women, but are permitted to ‘molest’ (i.e. rape) any other females.

      Islam takes for granted that Muslim males rape as an approved activity of SUPREMACISM.

  2. JamesonRocks says

    May 3, 2015 at 4:15 pm

    Excellent news!

  3. Roy Mears says

    May 3, 2015 at 4:50 pm

    https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ban-the-Burka-in-North-America/380704858773072

  4. ishkabibibul says

    May 3, 2015 at 5:53 pm

    Commonsense prevails ,why are the followers of islam the only ones to cover their face and not be required to identify themselves ,when every one else has to,why are they given special licence when it is they,the very ones we are nervous about ,typical muslim logic ,never makes any sense,it is so depressing and confronting and another gain for sharia .

  5. Wellington says

    May 3, 2015 at 8:31 pm

    Freedom has its limits. Freedom is not an absolute. Covering one’s entire face in a free society but the eyes is where freedom need not go, actually should not go, in order to demonstrate the virtues of freedom, though it is no surprise at all that Islam would test the limits of freedom all the while having as its goal the ending of it.

    A greater parasite than Islam would be hard to find among human society in all of its history. Islam is a scavenger par excellence. Should truth prevail in the long run, this would fittingly be Islam’s epitaph once it is consigned to the trash heap of history, where it so deservingly belongs.

    Here’s hoping that truth does prevail long term because between truth and Islam, just as between freedom and Islam, there can never be accord. Islam is an eternal enemy of truth and freedom. If I have come to know anything about Islam in the over forty years I have studied this profoudnly disturbing religion, I know this. With complete certainty.

    • Bukkdem Jizheads says

      May 4, 2015 at 11:46 am

      Eradicating Islam is a tall order. Liberals are similarly trying to eradicate Christianity, which will never happen. All I can hope for is the Ataturk example, where the veil and polygamy were banned and the alphabet & curricula was changed to Western. Turkey is very prosperous as a result, but is being usurped by anti-Kemal Islamo-nazis once again. Their military used to stage coups to reverse the threats, but now they are gutted by Erdogan.

      I believe these veiled women should be followed to their homes and the entire family be driven out of their country, especially if they are practicing polygamy, which is a very effective way of overtaking populations with their astounding fecundity.

      Our president, in Cairo, said American women should not be prevented from wearing the veil, and several times has admonished insulting Islam. WTF????

  6. Lia Wissing says

    May 4, 2015 at 5:56 am

    Good for you, the Congo!

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