France Oppresses Females

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State of Europe - 2010.

SHOW YOUR NOSE, French women told

President Sarkozy tells French women what to wear

French Government has now decided to dictate dress for women.

Females who will not wear what France demands risk losing state services, even benefits. Burka is outlawed in heart of Europe. Females who choose to wear it will be thrown off from buses and trains. Women must now wear what the government wants or else they will be banned from travelling on public transport and will be denied accecss to public services.

French President now threatens women who cover their faces. Woman who cover their nose and lips are "not welcome in France".














- French Government has declared Hijab as a threat to the Republic.

- Many French women wear a burka. The government is considering taking benefits away from those who wear them. Muslim women are told in France to choose between their religious dress and money.

Government spokesman said that women who wear the burka in France should be banned from using public transport or receiving state handouts, a government spokesman has said. The call came just one day after the head of President Nicolas Sarkozy's party, the UMP, said that Muslim women wearing full face veils should not be granted French nationality.













Women's Rights

Now Government UMP party spokesman Frederic Lefebvre has demanded any woman breaking a proposed law making the garment illegal should be 'deprived of her rights'.
He said: 'When you don't respect your responsibilities, you should not have access to any benefits. 'The rights and responsibilities of citizens in France are important.
'When you ignore rules that make things illegal, like a ban on the burka, you have have some of your rights taken away, like the right to state benefits or using public transport.'
Ruling UMP party chief Xavier Bertrand said on Sunday that women who wear burkas and niqabs should not be allowed to acquire French citizenship.
He said: 'The full veil is simply a prison for women who wear it and will make no one believe a woman wearing it wants to integrate.'













President Sarkozy has branded Islamic face veils 'a sign of debasement that imprison women' and said they are not welcome in his country. As the national debate raged on Islamic headwear, Sarkozy said last week he wants MPs to vote on a total ban on all full face veils in France.

The burka is a full-body covering worn largely in Afghanistan with a mesh screen over the face, and the niqab is a full-body veil with slits for the eyes.




















Another prominent UMP member Jean-Francois Cope also proposed in December that women should be fined more than £700 for wearing the burka and the niqab in public. And any man forcing a woman to cover her face burka should be fined even more, with those who refuse to pay up facing arrest and prison, Mr Cope said.

The country's immigration minister Eric Besson described them as 'an affront to national identity'. Women's rights groups and left wing MPs have gone even further, descibing the item as a 'walking coffin'.

But many left-wing politicians have warned that cautioned that a draconian law banning the burka could enflame tensions in the Muslim community, that it would be difficult to enforce and could face a challenge in the European Court of Human Rights.














According to the Interior Ministry, about 2,000 women in France wear full Muslim dress in public. France - home to Europe's largest Muslim population with five million resident - already passed a law in 2004 forbidding students and staff from wearing veils and other religious symbols in schools as part of a drive to defend secularism.

A Parliamentary Inquiry into the ladies garments has spoken against muslim women's clothes.



















Dress Threatens France

A French government has endorsed a ban on women wearing Islamic dress.
The 200-page report wants to ban Islamic garment in hospitals, schools, government offices and on public transport. The Commission also demands that women wearing the veil show signs of "radical religious practice" and hence they should be refused residence cards and citizenship.

The report said requiring women to cover their faces was against the French republican principles of secularism and equality. It went as far as to declare the hijab a threat to very existence of France. "The wearing of the full veil is a challenge to our republic. This is unacceptable. We must condemn it."

BBC said that the reasoning behind this is to make it as impractical as possible for the veiled ladies to go about their daily business in France.

France wants a ban on women's dress inside public buildings. Those who defy the ban and still wear the veil "should be denied whatever services are on offer there - for example state benefits."















This month Switzerland voted to ban minarets on mosques across the country.

In September a French mother was banned from wearing a 'burkini' swimsuit at her local swimming pool. Carole, a 35-year-old Muslim convert, was told by the manager of pool in Emerainville, near Paris, that the garment was 'inappropriate' on hygiene grounds.

The woman said she bought her burkini for £40 during a holiday in Dubai, adding:'"I was told that it would allow me the pleasure of bathing without showing off my body, which is what Islam recommends.' She is now taking her local council to court on the grounds that the ban was not a hygiene issue but a political issue.

In July, Al Qaeda terrorists vowed revenge on France if it banned the burka on its streets. Leaders of Al Qaeda's North African network wrote on an Islamic extremist website: 'French Muslims should react to this ban with the utmost hostility. 'We will seek dreadful revenge on France by all means at our disposal, for the honour of our daughters and sisters.'


















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