Paris, December 11: Muslim men who force their wives to wear the full Islamic veil should not be granted French citizenship, Justice Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said.
Wading into the debate over whether to ban the burqa, Alliot-Marie said the government would await the recommendations of a parliamentary panel considering possible legislation to bar Muslim women from wearing the full veil.
But the minister went on to say that "there are a certain number of basics on which we must stand firm."
"For instance, someone who would be seeking French citizenship and whose wife wears the full veil is someone who would not appear to be sharing the values of our country," she told LCI television.
"Therefore in a case like that one, we would reject his request," she said.
The justice minister said the wearing of the niqab or burqa was a "problem that affects our ability to live together, the values of the republic and in particular human dignity."
A French court last year denied citizenship to a veiled Moroccan woman on the grounds that her "radical" practice of Islam was incompatible with French values.
President Nicolas Sarkozy has proclaimed the burqa "not welcome" in secular France but he has not waded into the debate on whether the full veil should be banned.
The panel of 32 lawmakers from across the political spectrum are to hand in their much-awaited report on whether to ban the burqa next month.
-Agencies
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French cannot allow Purdah
French cannot allow Purdah bcoz thier President's wife raoms about in swimwuits across the beaches of the world.
They can accept a mistress as the First lady but not allow Muslim women to live with dignity
Waqt Aagaya
Aab waqt aagaya, jab lomdi ki maut aati hai to vo shahar ki taraf nikal ta hai....
TIME TO KNOW THE STATUS OF VIEL IN ISLAM
Western Society claim to have uplifted women. On the contrary it has actually degraded them to the status of concubines, mistresses & society butterflies who are mere tools in the hands of pleasure seekers and sex marketeers, hidden behind the colorful screen of art and culture.
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Yes! This is the same “Veil/Purdah” which Europe loathes and detests, and the very vision of which weighs heavily on the Western conscience, and which is regarded as a mark of oppression, narrow mindedness and barbarism. Yes, this is the same thing that is mentioned first of all in pointing out the ignorance and backwardness of an Eastern nation.
So much so that when a person has to describe the cultural and social advancement of an Eastern nation, the first thing that he mentions with great satisfaction is that it has discarded the “Purdah/Veil”.
Now if the Muslim so feels, let him hang his head with shame. For it is not something that was devised and adopted later it was indeed devised by the Qur’an itself and established by the Holy Prophet himself as a social custom…
Indeed, all the disputes about the veil spring from this hypocrisy. People have tried their very best to prove that the present form of Purdah/Veil was a custom of the pre-Islamic communities, and that Muslims adopted this custom of ignorance long after the time of the Holy Prophet.
If one carefully considers these injunctions for Purdah/Veil, one will find that the Islamic Purdah/Veil is not a custom of ignorance, but it is a rational law. A custom of ignorance is something rigid: it does not permit modification or change under any circumstances. If it covers a thing, it covers it forever, and it cannot be uncovered whatever may happen. In contrast to this, a rational law is flexible. It permits strictness and laxity according to the circumstances’; it permits exceptions in its rules according to the time and occasion.
“O Prophet, enjoin your wives and daughters and the women of the Muslims to draw their outer-garments close round them; it is expected that they will be recognized, and thus not molested...” (33:59)
“Every religion has a morality, and the morality of Islam is Haya (Shyness)”.
The word “Purdah/Veil” is used as a title for the set of injunctions, which constitute the most important part of the Islamic system of community life. If these injunctions are viewed in their right perspective against the structure of this system, every person who has not wholly lost his powers of discernment will readily admit this to be the only balanced and just view in regard to man’s social life.
TIME TO KNOW THE STATUS OF VIEL IN ISLAM
AND TO CLEAR THE MISCONCEPTIONS.
Please read
Purdah/Veil and the Status of Women in ISLAM
Sayyid Abul Ala Mawdudi
http://www.al-islamforall.org/Misc/purdah.pdf
For anyone looking for comprehensive & deeper information about the long debated issue of Purdah/Veil and the Status of Women in ISLAM, this book will help you to a better understanding of the topic. The roles and rights of Muslim women have been the subject of hot debate amongst Muslims and non-Muslims for centuries. Adequate Quranic references on the topic of Hijab, Purdah and the Muslim Woman’s dress code as appointed by Allah Almighty and Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).
Nature of the Problem,
Status of Woman in Different Ages Greece,
Rome, Christian Europe,
Modern Europe,
Three Doctrines of Western Society,
Miserable Failure of Human Intellect,
Western Concepts of Morality,
Tragic Consequences – I & II,
The Decisive Question,
Social System of Islam –I,II & III,
Commandments of Purdah/Veil and Divine Laws for the Movements of Women.
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Secularist country
Burqa is religious thing, if a law making which makes hard to follow religion, then its not Secularism Country, its Country of only Christian Religion, not multi faith country.
Praise be to Allah
who wants french citizenship,believe me u are better off without it.
AGAINST BURKA
With reference for the above subject.why every europe country looking ban on burqa. They are against of our Islam. Even they are agaisnt over islam. Isam cant be stop. Europe ministry want to know.Paris is looking to ban Burqa. If they want to ban Burkas. Any paris ministry they have to wear burqa when he want to visit to Islamic Country. Asper the islamic law.
why
why my comments are not allowed to this page
Legalised discrimination.
discrimination is getting legalized
burqa is compulsory
burqa system in islam is compulsory any muslim men or women deniying it is doing a sin.leave it of others but muslim womens had to wear full burqa including facefis covering face
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