A ban on wearing the all covering burka in France would stem the spread of what French minister Fadela Amara called the “cancer” of radical Islam, a report quoted her as saying Saturday. The Muslim minister for urban regeneration told the Financial Times newspaper that the head-to-toe body covering and veil represented the “oppression of women, their enslavement, their humiliation.” Amara, who is of Algerian descent, said France was a beacon for an enlightened Islam at ease with modernity, so it was necessary to fight the “gangrene, the cancer of radical Islam which completely distorts the message of Islam.” (…) “Those who have struggled for women’s rights back home in their own countries — I’m thinking particularly of Algeria — we know what it represents and what the obscurantist political project is that lies behind it, to confiscate the most fundamental of liberties,” she said.
link: France 24 | Minister says burqa ban would stop ‘cancer’ of radical Islam | France 24
Specially Algeria knows what means to fight Islamic extremists, who are now stregthening themselves.
Anyway, she has not been the only French UMP politician to support the burqa ban. Bernard Debré has also supported the ban:
Q: Do you agree with the law against the burqa? A: I agree that a law is necessary. The burqa represents everything which is unnaceptable for women. It’s a humiliation for the women and for the rest of the people who see those chained girls. Perhaps it’s acceptable in Muslim countries but certainly not in France. Even if it would only affect 300 women, it must be regulated. We are seeing it with the last affair of the burkini, that is, that women who presented herself in a local public swimming-pool. There are rules of hygiene and well-being in public swimming-pools which are universally applied. And that can’t be disputed.
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