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Bans on burqas are "very un-European," the head of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, said Thursday in Vienna, calling on Europeans to honour the values of tolerance and freedom.
Belgium's parliament approved a draft law banning the wearing of full-length veils last Thursday, while similar rules have been drafted in France and in a Swiss canton.
"We have been always listening and learning and reading that Europe is a continent of freedoms, not of bans," the Secretary General of the group of 57 Islamic countries said.