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| France veil ban 'will apply to Muslim tourists too' |
| 2010-04-22 |
| MUSLIM tourists in France will be forbidden to wear the full-face veil along with French residents under the Government's plan to ban the garment in public places, a minister said today. "When you arrive in France, you respect the laws in force .... Everyone will have to respect the laws in France. That's how it is," Nadine Morano, a junior minister for families, told the radio station France Info. Hundreds of thousands of visitors come to France each year from the Middle East, according to estimates from the tourism ministry, and veiled women are a common sight in the luxury stores on Paris shopping boulevards. Ms Morano said women breaching the ban would be fined but would not be unveiled "on the spot". Ms Morano said the planned ban was in line with France's secular principles but also aimed to give "a message at international level" and would apply equally to visitors from abroad. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #2 Probably not Christianity, but nationalism and growing alarm about their large group of 2nd generation, unassimilated immigrants. |
| Posted by: lotp 2010-04-22 21:06 |
| #1 Good! You can always count on Frenchman to defend that which is France. (but not anything else) I hope their sense of Christianity and Nationalism compels them to keep this ban in force. |
| Posted by: Mike Hunt 2010-04-22 12:55 |