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    European Parliament’s biggest political group calls for EU-wide ban on Islamic face veils

    Ayesha
    April 10, 2017
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    European Parliament’s biggest political group calls for EU-wide ban on Islamic face veils

    Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail| 10 April 2017| 12 Rajab 1438

    The European Parliament’s biggest political grouping has said it supports the introduction of a European Union-wide ban on Islamic face veils

    The European People’s Party adopted the measure as an official policy at its annual congress in Malta this week, claiming that the ban should be introduced “both for reasons of security and because seeing one another’s faces is an integral part of human interaction in Europe”.

    The EPP, a center-right liberal conservative grouping, holds 216 seats in the 751 member European Parliament and is affiliated with major governing parties such as Angela Merkel’s CDU, the French Republican’s and Spain’s People’s Party.

    The provisions for the banning of face coverings appear to explicitly target Muslims, being contained in a resolution named “For a cohesive society: Countering Islamic extremism” and mentioning the burqa and niqaab by name.

    Speaking to the German media following the passage of the resolution, Manfred Weber, the group’s leader in the European Parliament, said: “We want a total ban of face covering in the EU.”

    Mr Weber is a member of Angela Merkel’s CDU/CSU alliance in Germany.

    The UK’s Conservative party was previously a member of the European People’s Party but it left to form the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists in 2009 because the EPP was not seen as Eurosceptic enough.

    Other provisions contained in the motion include calls for “the avoidance of concentrating thousands of third-country nationals in any one location” and a proposal to link welfare benefit payments to unspecified “mandatory integration requirements”.

    The EPP’s resolution is not binding on any of its member parties but it gives an indication of the direction of its membership. An EPP source said the proposal should be discussed at EU level but accepted that such a ban would not be within current EU competencies.

    The section relating to face coverings reads: “The EPP calls for … A ban on full-face veils (i.e. the burqa or niqab) in public places, both for reasons of security and because seeing one another’s faces is an integral part of human interaction in Europe”.

    Face covering bans have been introduced in a number of European countries in recent years. Some bans have been justified on the basis of secularism and others on the basis of security, but all have effectively targeted Muslim women.

    France passed a ban on face coverings in 2010, as have some areas of Switzerland.

    In February, when asked in the House of Commons about the status of headscarves such as the hijab, Theresa May said: “I believe that what a woman wears is a woman’s choice.”

    Source – Independent

    Tags : Angela Merkel, Ban on Islamic face veils, Burqa, European Parliament’s, Hijab, Islamic face veils, Niqab
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