Niqab is banned in France

[alfatiha]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe...ban/index.html
http://abcnews.go.com/International/...ry?id=11630449

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/fra...506/story.html

The French parliament passed a law Tuesday prohibiting wearing a full-face veil in public, meaning a ban will come into force early next year if it is not overturned by senior judges.

Make du'a

[hoohoo]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe...ban/index.html
http://abcnews.go.com/International/...ry?id=11630449

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/fra...506/story.html


Make du'a

As expected the law has been passed but can I ask is it a ba on covering the face or on wearing the Niqab cover because if it for wearing the Niqab ther ecan be ways around like wearing bike helmet of some sort

[alfatiha]

As expected the law has been passed but can I ask is it a ba on covering the face or on wearing the Niqab cover because if it for wearing the Niqab ther ecan be ways around like wearing bike helmet of some sort

Maybe like bee protection head?

[fahid]

This is likely to become a trend in the West. Freedom of Religion is becoming more of a joke.

What's next the end of Adhan?

[Sunni_Student786]

This is likely to become a trend in the West. Freedom of Religion is becoming more of a joke.

What's next the end of Adhan?

If I were a betting man, I'd say yes.

[abutalib]

Salam, I used to work in fine dining restaurants who's chefs are French. As much as the French claim to be secular and liberal in thier politics, the opinions of many of the men I worked for from France were anything but that. In fact one of the chefs I worked for was always speaking out against the USA's foreign policy in regard to Afghanistan and Iraq, but when the 2004 law come into effect regarding the wearing of religious headcoverings, he said that it was right to do this, as there was so much trouble with the "people from the Middle East in Paris". They have a real racial attitude towards Muslims, at least the ones I worked with. This will only set precedent in Europe, the USA will probably not follow suit right away, but may try. I know many Americans would not allow such laws, even those who oppose Islam, if only because the religious laws would effect them. I think that this is just one more thing that is being put to us as a test, in secular countries, we stand out for our adherance to Allah's (swt) commands, and that makes peoples conscienes prick so that they try to make all people "equal". It's interesting that those who are always crying for tolerance are the least tolerant. In their condemnation of Sharia law, they set up an alternitive, and completely intolerant, law themselves....
Salam, Abu Talib.

[Abdullah288]

Assalamu alaykum
so called traditional scholar at al azhar
CAIRO — A leading cleric at Egypt's prestigious Al-Azhar Mosque on Wednesday applauded France's ban on the face veil worn by some devout Muslim women, saying the niqab harmed Islam's image.

Abdel Muti al-Bayyumi, a member of an influential council of clerics at al-Azhar, said the niqab, a full-face veil that leaves an opening for the eyes, "has no basis in Islamic law and there is nothing in the Koran or Sunna that supports it."

"I personally support (the ban) and many of my brothers in the Islamic Research Academy support it. My position against the niqab is actually older than France's," said Bayyumi, who has authored a book against the practice.

"I want to send a message to Muslims in France and Europe. The niqab has no basis in Islam. I used to feel dismayed when I saw some of the sisters (in France) wearing the niqab. This does not give a good impression of Islam."

The French parliament passed a law on Tuesday prohibiting wearing the full-face veil in public, meaning a ban will come into force early next year if it is not overturned by senior judges.

The text makes no mention of Islam, but President Nicolas Sarkozy's government promoted the law as a means to protect women from being forced to wear Muslim full-face veils such as the burqa or the niqab.

Al-Azhar, which runs the leading Sunni Muslim university, has opposed the face veil in Egypt and banned it in female-only classes in affiliated schools. Most Muslim women in Egypt wear a hijab, which covers the hair and neck.

The mosque and university follow a traditional school of Islam that is seen as moderate compared with the stricter Salafi school followed in Saudi Arabia.

Egypt's education ministry imposed a ban on the veil in university residences for women but a court overturned the ban on constitutional grounds.

[bugmenot]

Once again Al-Azhar scholar(s) at the rescue of French anti-islam laws...

[ibn Mikael]

I've never understood why any Muslims would ever want to live in France....just thinking about the French sickens me

[fahid]

Assalamu alaykum
President Nicolas Sarkozy's government promoted the law as a means to protect women from being forced to wear Muslim full-face veils such as the burqa or the niqab.

This is hilarious

Nicolas wants to protect women from Allah!