I can not express how PROUD I AM of SPAIN for STANDING UP to DISCRIMINATION and HATRED!!
"None of the opposition spokesmen consulted had been able to cite a place in Spain where women routinely wear face-covering veils"
Then it is NOT REALLY much of a PROBLEM, is it?
"Spain’s Parliament turns down burka ban" by Alan Clendenning and Harold Heckle, Associated Press | July 21, 2010
A woman wore a veil yesterday in Blackburn, England. Several European countries have considered banning face veils. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
What hauntingly beautiful eyes! I better turn away quick!
MADRID — Spain’s Parliament rejected yesterday a proposal to ban women from wearing in public places Islamic veils that reveal only the eyes.
The Socialist government, however, has said it favors including a ban on people wearing burkas in government buildings in an upcoming bill on religious issues to be debated after Parliament’s summer vacation break....
One battle at a time.
The nonbinding proposal was put forward by the leading opposition Popular Party, which portrayed it as a measure in support of women’s rights....
“It is very difficult to understand how it is that our troops are defending liberty in Afghanistan and the government doesn’t have the courage to do so here, in Spain,’’ Soraya Saenz de Santamaria, opposition spokeswoman, said in Parliament.
Is that what she thinks they are doing?
I guess Muslim women don't have to worry when they are wearing the burka in the grave, huh?
Of course, their grieving faces full of tears can have an AmeriKan MSM veil pulled over them and that is fine.
The opposition’s proposal followed discussions in several other European countries on possibly banning face veils that show only a woman’s eyes, or their eyes through a knitted mesh.
Nations like France, Belgium, and Switzerland have struggled to balance their national identities with growing Muslim populations that have cultural practices that clash with their own....
Related: Timing Earthquakes With a Swiss Watch
Looking Under the French Veils
I didn't see anything, honest!
Also see: Memory Hole: How I Came to Love the Veil
Required reading.
Some analysts had interpreted the proposal as an opposition ploy to build their party’s strength amid the economic turmoil and dismal growth prospects that have dogged the government of José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.
Yeah, KICK AROUND the MUSLIM WOMEN for POLITICAL PURPOSES!
None of the opposition spokesmen consulted had been able to cite a place in Spain where women routinely wear face-covering veils.
Say what?
A handful of Spanish towns and cities, however, have banned the wearing of burkas and niqabs in municipal buildings, including in the country’s second-largest city of Barcelona in June.
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"BULL'S-EYE -- The running of the bulls continued yesterday during Spain's San Fermin festival in Pamplona, the seventh running in the nine-day festival. Three people were hospitalized after being injured yesterday (Boston Globe July 14 2010)."
"9 INJURED IN RUNNING OF THE BULLS -- Participants fell during bullfighting yesterday, the last day of the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona. It was the bloodiest run of this year's San Fermin Festival. Nine thrill-seekers were injured; three by goring. Bulls tossed people on the slippery cobblestone streets, where a red bull at the tail of the pack fell and became separated from the rest, leaving it disoriented and irritated by the large crowds (Boston Globe July 15 2010)."
I don't want to ruin anyone's fun, but.... as long as no one was killed, I suppose.
Also see: Soccer Sunday: Globe Picks Spain to Win World Cup
Globe was right about that, anyway. Hope the kid is okay.
