Sarkozy speaks out against burka

BBC News
June 22, 2009

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1820/sarkozy-speaks-out-against-burka

Excerpt:

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has spoken out strongly against the wearing of the burka by Muslim women in France.

In a major policy speech, he said the burka - a garment covering women from head to toe - reduced them to servitude and undermined their dignity.

Mr Sarkozy also gave his backing to the establishment of a parliamentary commission to look at whether to ban the wearing of burkas in public.

In 2004, France banned the Islamic headscarves in its state schools.

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