Australian law makers are calling for rules requiring Muslim women in full face veils to remove them at the request of law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n
Muslim women would have to show their faces to police officers\u00a0or risk a $5,500 fine and\/or a prison sentence under proposed new laws in Australia’s most populous state.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0law proposed by the government of New South Wales, which includes Sydney, is\u00a0set for a vote\u00a0in August. It\u00a0does not ban veils that reveal only the eyes. Insead motorists and criminal suspects would have to remove any head coverings so that police can identify them.<\/p>\n
Belgium\u2019s lower house of parliament\u00a0last year\u00a0voted for a law that would ban women from wearing the full Islamic face veil in public — matching such laws in France, Italy, Denmark and the Netherlands. French President Nicolas Sarkozy called the veils \u201can affront to women\u2019s dignity unwelcome in France.\u201d<\/p>\n
In northern Italy a Muslim woman has even been fined under anti-terrorism laws for wearing a burqa in public.<\/p>\n
French Muslim imam Hassen Chalghoumi supports such bans. He is quoted in the\u00a0the British newspaper The\u00a0Telegraph <\/em>saying that women who wanted to cover their faces should move to Muslim countries where covering was a tradition and that \u201cThe burqa is a prison for women, a tool of sexist domination and Islamist indoctrination.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Australian law makers are calling for rules requiring Muslim women in full face veils to remove them at the request of law enforcement officers. Muslim women would have to show their faces to police officers\u00a0or risk a $5,500 fine and\/or a prison sentence under proposed new laws in Australia’s most populous state. The\u00a0law proposed by…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1072,2207,2201,1073],"class_list":["post-4058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-muslim","tag-australia","tag-muslim","tag-news","tag-veils"],"yoast_head":"\n