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MUI Declares European Burqa Bans a Rights Issue
April 22, 2010

The proposed ban would apply to both residents and tourists in France and Belgium. (AFP Photo) The proposed ban would apply to both residents and tourists in France and Belgium. (AFP Photo)
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The-Holy-Prophet-Cletus
4:52pm Apr 23, 2010

Burqa-babes: If you don't like it, don't visit France or Belgium, so sayeth the Prophet Cletus (peace be upon me).

Nora77
10:18am Apr 23, 2010

This maybe a pros and cons issue. Sure they're cautious, but their gain won't be what they'll expected.

agoz
10:06am Apr 23, 2010

Ms nadine moreno: ...the planned ban was in line with france secular principles...wearing burqa was part of whorshipping in slam. If secular-democracy has claimed herself as defender of differentiation upon member of society including in whorshipping, why this banning to be delivered? Its one of the proof inconsistency of secular-democracy

Valkyrie
6:05am Apr 23, 2010

Can you beat that? An atheist quoting the Holy Scriptures? "Physician heal thyself" is a proverb and can be found in the book of Luke 4:23.

oleleho
1:13am Apr 23, 2010

To Simon P

1. As if you have read through the holy book from cover to cover by saying there is nothing in the Holy Book that says women have to cover their faces.

2. How did you come into conclusion that covering their face is the same as dehumanizing themselves? Why are you so sure about it? How about uncovering women's bodies as commonly happens in Western countries, including France? You would say they do it out of their own choice. So do those niqabi women. Then why on earth is the French government targetting and singling out only 2000 Muslim women out of 4 millions Muslims in France while feeling secular enough to let those naked women do whatever they want to do. This is nothing but racism or discrimination against Muslims.

3. Be careful about saying Islamo-fascism when you deal with Islamic issues. How about those fundamentalist Christians in the Southern part of the US. They killed people and policemen in the name of Jesus (pbuh) and yet no media, including yourself, have ever mentioned about Christiano-fascism.

4. Yes MUI is not our best institution so far. But please be more specific when you are trying to be critical. Blaming Muslims and their Holy Book as a whole for the mistakes done by some zealot minority is not acceptable and far for being fair.

France and Belgium would be guilty of abusing women’s rights if they followed through on plans to ban the wearing of burqas in public, Indonesia’s top Islamic body said on Thursday.

The Indonesian Council of Ulema (MUI) said religious beliefs should be respected, even if they presented security concerns by covering the face.

“We’re clearly against the proposed ban. If it becomes law, it will mean Belgium and France are restricting the rights of Muslim women to fulfil their religious obligations,” MUI chairman Amidhan said. “If it’s for security reasons, the fears are excessive. It’s unfair to consider all veiled women a threat.”

Although the vast majority of Indonesian women do not wear the full body-covering burqa or face-covering niqab, Muslims in other parts of the world have different interpretations of Islamic scripture and their beliefs should be respected, he said.

“Interpretation of the Koran is different in different countries,” he said. “Indonesian Muslim women don’t have to cover their faces with veils, unlike Muslim women in some countries in the Middle East. But we have to respect their beliefs.”

Belgium was set to pass a ban on burqas on Thursday, which would be the first such clampdown in Europe, just a day after France promised a similar law.

The French government said a bill would be presented to ministers in May banning the niqab and the burqa from streets, shops and markets, and not just from public buildings as is the case now.

A French minister said Muslim tourists in France would also be forbidden to wear the full-face veil, along with French residents, under the government’s plan to ban the garment.

“When you arrive in France, you respect the laws in force,” Nadine Morano, a junior minister for families, said on the radio station France Info. “Everyone will have to respect the laws in France. That’s how it is.”

Hundreds of thousands of tourists from the Middle East visit France each year, according to estimates from its Tourism Ministry, and veiled women are a common sight in the luxury stores along Paris’s shopping boulevards.

Morano said women breaching the ban would be fined but would not be unveiled “on the spot.”

She said that the planned ban was in line with France’s secular principles, but also aimed to give “a message at international level” and would apply equally to all visitors from abroad.

 

Agence France-Presse