Imam lends support to French burqa ban

Posted on 22nd January 2010 by French News in france,news - Tags: , , , , , , ,

.An Imam in Paris has given his support for a law against full-face veils and burqas in France. .
The report will be handed to the national assembly on Tuesday after which the French Government is likely to pass a law banning clothing that covers the face while they are in public.
Hassen Chalghoumi, who heads a mosque in a northern suburb of Paris, said women who wanted to cover their faces should move to Saudi Arabia or other Muslim countries where that was a tradition.

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President Nicolas Sarkozy supports a ban calling the veils an affront to women’s dignity

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