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Women who wear burkhas in public in France will be fined


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It might have been in the Bookseller of Kabul or a Thousand Splendid Suns?

 

I've read it somewhere too, although it actually seems to me that it said the actual design or arrangement of the niqab, rather than the burqa, lends itself to the formation of small 'blinkers' which impede the peripheral vision of the wearer, forcing them to turn their head to track anything. Which is why it's not that safe for them to drive, which is then why they aren't allowed to drive ... :)

 

If anyone who actually wears a niqab could comment?

 

Thank you for that, yes it was in The bookseller of Kabul.

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Why is this? What reason do you have for thinking it's okay to tell someone they can't walk to the shop in the clothes they've chosen to wear??
No-one has to be allowed in a shop or bank with their face covered AFAIK.

 

But this is getting silly now, this is just going over the same old same old that we've been discussing for years. It's a waste of time anyway because if the Government of France have already done this, it won't be long before the rest of the EU follow suit? And it won't make an iota of difference what any of us think about it.

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Why is this? What reason do you have for thinking it's okay to tell someone they can't walk to the shop in the clothes they've chosen to wear??

 

Do you think the shopkeeper has a right to ask the person to show their face in his shop?

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