فرنسا: مطالبة بمنع المرأة المنتقبة من حقوقها المدنية

فرنسا: مطالبة بمنع المرأة المنتقبة من حقوقها المدنية
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تاريخ الإضافة: 20/1/2010 ميلادي - 4/2/1431 هجري

طالب "فريدرك ليفيبفري" - عضو حزب "الاتحاد من أجل حركة شعبية" الحاكم - بمنع المرأة المنتقبة من ركوب المواصلات العامة والحصول على المساعدات الحكومية، مؤكدًا أن المرأة التي تخرق قانون عدم مشروعية ارتداء النقاب يجب أن تُحرم من حقوقها.

وجاءت هذه التصريحات العنصرية البشعة عقب إعلان "خافيير بيرتراند" - أحد أعضاء حزب "ساركوزي" الحاكم - أن المرأة المنتقبة يجب أن تُحرم من الجنسية الفرنسية، مؤكدًا أن المرأة التي ترتدي النقاب تؤكد على عدم رغبتها في الاندماج في المجتمع الفرنسي.

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Ban women wearing the burka from benefits and public transport, demands French government spokesman
Women who wear the burka in France should be banned from using public transport or receiving state handouts, a government official says.

UMP party spokesman Frederic Lefebvre demanded that any woman breaking a proposed law making the garment illegal should be 'deprived of her rights'.

His comments came the day after the head of president Nicolas Sarkozy's party said Muslim women wearing full-face veils should not be granted French nationality.

Mr Lefebvre 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 some of your rights taken away, like the right to state benefits or using public transport'.

UMP party chief Xavier Bertrand said on Sunday that women who wear burkas or 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 called Islamic face veils 'a sign of debasement that imprison women' and said they are not welcome in France.

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.

A parliamentary inquiry into the garments is due to be published on January 26.
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, describing the item as a 'walking coffin'.

But many left-wing politicians have cautioned that a draconian law banning the burka could inflame 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 .
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'.