France which purports to triumph liberalism and freedom above all, has enforced a bias and incongruous law. Even more absurd than the law itself is the rationale on which it stands, and it looks more a Taliban law, then a law passed by the so called democrats.
French government started enforcing a ban on all face-covering veils in the public square. It is universally recognized that this law specifically targets the practice of religious Muslim women who wear what is known as a niqab. The text of the law itself is worded to carefully avoid any explicit mention of Islam or women. Nevertheless, this law undoubtedly prohibits a particular population from exercising their full religious beliefs.
French President "Mulla" Nicolas Sarkozy has been one of the prime proponents of the recent "burka ban," as it has come to be known. He has said that the law is an effort to defend women's rights and protect their freedom.
Last year, with just one vote short of unanimous support, the law was easily pushed through the Mulla Sarkozy's Shura, i.e. Parliament of France. At that time he claimed that the niqab and the burka represent the subjugation of women.
By enacting this law, the French government is contributing to a frightening wave of Islamophobia sweeping across Europe and the United States. While a similar law is unlikely to ever be enacted here, the new French edict is symbolic of bigotry and xenophobia.
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