Friday, October 22, 2010
French Fists
PARIS — France’s constitutional watchdog endorsed a divisive law yesterday forbidding face-covering Islamic veils anywhere in public....
Yeah, the cause of all the world's troubles.
The law, the first of its kind in Western Europe, forbids veils such as the niqab or burqa anywhere in public and imposes a $210 fine on anyone wearing one — and a $41,700 fine on anyone who forces a woman to wear one. Some 2,000 women in France are estimated to wear such veils.
French women that CHOOSE to WEAR IT, readers.
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Also see: Europe Under an Iron Veil
These people have been beaten up for a long time, too:
VATICAN CITY — President Nicolas Sarkozy of France met yesterday with the pope and top Vatican officials in a fence-mending visit following France’s controversial crackdown on Gypsies, while a top Vatican cardinal urged France to welcome immigrants and those who have been persecuted.
Sarkozy’s government has linked Gypsies, or Roma, to crime, dismantled hundreds of their shantytowns and expelled more than 1,000 Roma in recent months, sending them home to Romania and Bulgaria.
The crackdown has been criticized by Roman Catholics, and Pope Benedict XVI appeared to weigh in on it with a subtle message about tolerance....
Sarkozy has defended the expulsions, saying they are part of an overall crackdown on illegal immigrants and crime. Most of the Roma in France are from Romania and Bulgaria, and as EU citizens, they have a right to travel to France, but must get permission to work or live there in the long term. The government says most of the Roma are leaving voluntarily, with a small stipend from France.
That's a lie.
"Roma advocates countered the repatriations were hardly voluntary, claiming that those who refused the deal would end up in holding centers and eventually be sent home without funds."
Oh, that was what the GOVERNMENT SAID, huh?
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Also see: France's Genocide of the Gypsies
