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Italy today became the latest European government to announce it was considering introducing a law which would make wearing a burqa illegal.
MPs from the anti-immigration Northern League party, a member of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's ruling right wing coalition, have presented the proposal in a bill.
It comes just weeks after France also said that it was considering making the wearing of burqas by Muslim women illegal - a statement which prompted al Qaeda terrorists to vow revenge if it was banned.
Italy has more than one million Muslims but it is rare to see women wearing the full burqa.