{"id":180,"date":"2010-06-24T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/06\/spain-joins-france-belgium-in-considering-burqa-ban.html"},"modified":"2010-06-24T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T16:00:00","slug":"spain-joins-france-belgium-in-considering-burqa-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/06\/spain-joins-france-belgium-in-considering-burqa-ban.html","title":{"rendered":"Spain Joins France, Belgium in Considering Burqa Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to post a round-up about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/24\/world\/europe\/24iht-spain.html?partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\">Spain joining the list of European countries&nbsp;considering bans on identity-cloaking veils worn by a small percentage of devout Muslim women<\/a>. Unfortunately, I&#8217;m having trouble finding articles that clearly explain the&nbsp;relevant angles:&nbsp;the current status of each of the proposed laws, the type of veil specified (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/shared\/spl\/hi\/pop_ups\/05\/europe_muslim_veils\/html\/1.stm\">hijab, burqa&nbsp;and\/or niqab<\/a>?), the percentage of citizens\/immigrants&nbsp;impacted, whether the bans have any support from progressive\/secular Muslims, how much of this is based on security concerns vs.&nbsp;xenophobia,&nbsp;etc.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve found nothing on the potential impact on&nbsp;diplomatic relations and tourism, if at all. (The only time I&#8217;ve really noticed niqabs &#8212; I&#8217;ve never seen burqas &#8212; in western Europe has been at the&nbsp;airport in summer&nbsp;&#8212; presumably Saudi women on vacation.) It would also be interesting to compare these proposals with laws restricting head coverings for women in Muslim-majority countries like&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hijab_by_country\">Turkey and Tunisia.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll keep looking. In the meantime,&nbsp;here are some interesting links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/idUKTRE65M4SD20100623?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=topNews\">Council of Europe opposes bans on Muslim face veils <\/a>(Reuters)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/muslimahmediawatch.org\/2010\/05\/how-western-journalists-reported-the-ban-on-burqa\/\">How Western journalists reported the ban on burqa <\/a>(Muslimah Media Watch)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Features\/Culture_Society\/2010\/06\/24\/Indian-Muslims-react-to-Europes-burqa-bans\/12773224228142\/\">Indian Muslims react to Europe&#8217;s burqa bans <\/a>(UPI)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/?p=30151\">Belgium&#8217;s Burqa Ban <\/a>(GetReligion)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Share your thoughts in the Comments section below, and post any other links there that I may have missed, too. (I&#8217;ll keep updating the list over the next few days.)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to post a round-up about Spain joining the list of European countries&nbsp;considering bans on identity-cloaking veils worn by a small percentage of devout Muslim women. Unfortunately, I&#8217;m having trouble finding articles that clearly explain the&nbsp;relevant angles:&nbsp;the current status of each of the proposed laws, the type of veil specified (hijab, burqa&nbsp;and\/or niqab?), the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Spain Joins France, Belgium in Considering Burqa Ban - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/06\/spain-joins-france-belgium-in-considering-burqa-ban.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spain Joins France, Belgium in Considering Burqa Ban - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I wanted to post a round-up about Spain joining the list of European countries&nbsp;considering bans on identity-cloaking veils worn by a small percentage of devout Muslim women. 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