French MPs back burka ban as only ONE votes against bid to outlaw Islamic 'walking coffins'
French MPs today overwhelmingly voted to ban the burka after a senior minister described it as a ‘walking coffin’ and a ‘muzzle’.
Only one deputy opposed the bill in the National Assembly as 335 other politicians united to show their opposition to Islamic veils which cover a woman’s entire face.
The draft bill, proposed by President Nicholas Sarkozy’s government, will now pass to the Senate where it could be ratified as early as September.
United: Members of the French parliament voted 335-1 in favour of the burka ban
It follows months of debate which saw Immigration Minister Eric Besson describe the burka, which is most often seen in Afghanistan, as a ‘walking coffin’, while Prime Minister Francois Fillon accused wearers of ‘hijacking Islam' and displaying a 'dark sectarian image’.
Recent polls suggested that more than 80 per cent of French people wanted the burka banned, including members of the country’s 5million-strong Muslim population.
Such was the popularity of the measure opposition Socialists and Greens abstained from the vote rather than cast their ballot against it.
Members of far Left groups like the Communists joined Mr Sarkozy’s ruling UMP party in voting for it.
Belgium and Spain have initiated burqa bans, while in Britain support for one have come from a Tory backbencher and party’s including the UK Independence Party.
Under the terms of the bill, anyone caught wearing a burka or a niqab will face a £125 More importantly, men caught forcing a woman to wear a burka or a niqab will face a year in prison or a £25,000 fine.
But the ban could be shot down by France's constitutional watchdog or the European Court of Human Rights.
In March, France's highest administrative body, the Council of State, warned that it could be illegal because it does not allow freedom of expression.
This could dampen efforts under way in other European countries, including Britain, to ban the veil.
Fight: A veiled Muslim woman with her French passport shows her opposition
It would also be a humiliation for President Sarkozy, whose government has devoted much attention to a bill that would only affect some 2,000 women in France.
The main body representing French Muslims says face-covering veils are not required by Islam, but it worries that the law will stigmatise the religion.
The niqab and burka are seen by some as a symbol of extremism and an attack on women's rights in the secular French Republic.
While the proposed legislation is colloquially referred to as the ‘anti-burka law,’ it is officially called ‘the bill to forbid concealing one's face in public.’
Communist MP Andre Gerin, who supports a ban, said that ‘talking about liberty to defend the wearing of the full veil is totally cynical - for me, the full veil is a walking coffin, a muzzle.’
A French tycoon is setting up a fund to help Muslim women pay 'burka fines' for hiding their faces in public.
Muslim businessman Rachid Nekkaz has pledged to sell off £840,000 worth of property in Paris for the fund.
PISS ON SAUDI BASTARDS WHO WANT TO DO BUSINESS IN AMERICA!
Can we blame BUSH or whomever for the ties to Saudi Arabia, the SEED of the Muslim Brotherhood bastards who want to shove SHARIA and ISLAM up your christian, jewish or atheist ass?
The money fucks in America would sell America to head hunters to make a buck and this has to stop. AMERICA AND FRANCE AND ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA NEED TO DEPORT ALL FUCKING MUSLIMS 'YESTERDAY' BECAUSE THEY ARE TROUBLE MAKERS FROM THE BEGINNING OF TIME TO PRESENT.
Americans cannot EVER have that FUCKING ISLAM SHIT AUTHORIZED TO DO ANYTHING IN AMERICA...THEY ARE TROUBLE...AND MOST ARE LIARS.
AMERICA ALLOWED A 'STINK' IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND HAVE ALLOWED THAT DUMB FUCKING MUSLIM PIECE OF SHIT TO BRING HIS SHARIA BULLSHIT INTO AMERICA'S GOVERNMENT. FUCK ISLAM AND MUSLIMS TOO.
Saudi prince, Fox to start Arabic news channel
Last Updated: Monday, July 12, 2010 | 12:38 PM ET CBC News
Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has announced plans to launch a 24-hour Arabic-language news channel in partnership with Rupert Murdoch's Fox network.
Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, former editor in chief of Alwatan newspaper and a media adviser to Prince Turki Al-Faisal at Saudi embassies in London and Washington D.C., will head the station.
Khashoggi is a controversial choice because he has clashed with Saudi authorities over religious police and women's rights and resigned from his newspaper position earlier this year over an editorial questioning Salafism, a form of Islam at the heart of the conservative state.
Prince Alwaleed's new channel will compete for Arab viewers with well-established networks Al Arabiya and Al Jazeera. He did not name the channel, which will build a network of Arab correspondents.
"We no longer have a void in the Arab world as it is now heavily occupied," Alwaleed acknowledged in the statement.
'An alternative for viewers'
"Therefore the new news channel is going to become an addition and an alternative for viewers. Our personal aim is to achieve this."
The new channel "will focus on development in Saudi Arabia and the Arab world on the political, economic and social fronts," he added.
News Corp. and Prince Alwaleed's Rotana already have a relationship with News Corp. buying a 9.09 per cent stake in Rotana for $70 million US earlier this year. Alwaleed already held seven per cent in News.
Fox channels are carried on Rotana's conventional TV platform and Rotana and Fox co-operated last year on a four-year deal for content from the Walt Disney Company.
Rotana also owns radio stations, a magazine, a digital media group and other broadcasting interests. However the new network will not be held by Rotana, but by Kingdom Holding, another of Prince Alwaleed's companies.
No date was given for launch of the channel.
TO MANY AMERICANS BELIEVED THIS BASTARD ARAB BORN AMERICAN
Is this the creep who wants a MOSQUE at the 911 site? YEP! I think it is. This is the PEACE community relations expert. He wants a mosque where all faiths can join together to get an understanding of Islam. What DUMB fucking Americans don't realize is that this SHIT is a phony, and all that he says is only TRUE IF YOU BECOME A DUMB FUCK MUSLIM. AND! you get to smell farts at the mosque...bring a cigarette lighter to light off the farts.... it's gas and it's flammable.
This piece of shit was born an American. The other pieces of shit are the Ft.Hood crazy ass, and the Yemen crazy ass. .these guys are ALL college grads ...too. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOLKS?
Ground Zero Imam Rauf's "Charity" Funded Genocide Mission. State Department Mulls Terror Designation For Group
Back on June 5th, I reported that Islamic supremacist Imam Rauf, the imam behind that grotesque flag of conquest on Ground Zero, was a "prominent figure" in "The Perdana Organization." They funded the genocidal Jew-hating terrorist group behind the murderous attack on Jewish soldiers on the warship flotilla. Rauf is funding IHH? Provoking, funding, encouraging a second holocaust? Where is he getting his $100 million for the Islamic supremacist mega mosque looking down on the mass burial ground at the World Trade Center, and why is Ayatollah Bloomberg calling any investigation into Imam Terror's shady funding "un-American"?
IHH launched those genocidal ships, and Fox News reported last month that IHH has links to terrorist groups, including Hamas and Al Qaeda.
FOX EXCLUSIVE: State Department Mulls Terror Designation for Gaza 'Aid' Ship Funder
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