France, S'il Vous Plaît, A Burqa Ban Isn't The Answer
The issue of banning the burqa in France has generated so much heat over the past few months that one would assume the ban had already come into effect. Not so. Since French President Nicolas Sarkozy famously stated that, "the burqa is not a religious sign, it is a sign of the subjugation, of the submission of women...it will not be welcome on our territory," a parliamentary panel has spent the past six months looking into why Muslim women wear the burqa, ... Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
