Why France can’t see past the burqa
Ronald P. Sokol; 24/7/08
Moroccan-born Faiza Mabchour speaks French fluently, has three children born in France, and a French husband. Yet France’s top administrative court last month denied her bid for citizenship. The reason? Mabchour wears a burqa, a long veil that some Muslim women use to cover themselves from head to toe. In an interview with officials, she said she wore the burqa not for any special religious belief but because her husband asked her to. A government report stated that “she lives in total submission to the men of her family, and the notion of questioning this submission does not even occur to her”. The court said such a radical religious practice is incompatible with fundamental French values such as the equality of the sexes; thus, she was judged unable to assimilate - a must for citizenship.
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Tags: Europe, Religion, Womens Rights