France’s former
leader Nizolas Sarkozy says he’ll ban the burkini nationwide if
re-elected as president next year. At his first rally for the
elections on Thursday, Sarkozy commends both right- and left-wing
mayors who have banned the burkini in their towns. The former
conservative leader, who served as president from 2007 to 2012, says
the ban is to preserve public order. Photograph: Guillaume
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Vast
majority of Germans in favour of burqa ban: poll
Published: 26 Aug
2016 10:11 GMT+02:00
Updated: 26 Aug 2016
10:11 GMT+02:00
A survey found that
the vast majority of respondents were in favour of Germany passing a
ban on the full-body veil sometimes worn by Muslim women.
The “Deutschland
Trend” poll for broadcaster ARD surveyed more than 1,000 people
between Tuesday and Wednesday and asked what they thought about the
proposal for Germany to ban full-body veils worn by Muslim women.
A little more than
half (51 percent) of respondents said that they approved of having a
general ban on burqas or niqabs in public, while about one-third were
for a partial ban in public places like schools or public offices.
That means that in
total, 81 percent were in favour of some form of ban on the burqa.
Meanwhile, 15
percent said they objected to a burqa ban as a matter of principle.
The German
government is currently considering a restriction on burqas as part
of measures to combat terrorism. Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière
last week proposed a partial ban in public offices, schools, in court
or other such places where showing one's face "is necessary for
our society’s coexistence”.
Chancellor Angela
Merkel also criticized the apparel last week.
“From my point of
view, a completely covered woman has almost no chance of integrating
herself in Germany,” Merkel told Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland.
But critics have
said such a ban has nothing to do with fighting terrorism, and that
the policy could hinder integration rather than help it.
Teachers’ union
German Education and Science Workers’ Union (GEW) said earlier this
week that a ban in schools and universities in particular hurts women
from conservative families and their educational opportunities.
“We cannot exclude
women from education just because they are wearing the burqa or
niqab,” a GEW spokeswoman told Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung.
“During class,
they can start to develop self-confidence, which is something that is
necessary in order to take off the veil against family tradition. We
should encourage this kind of transformation process, not hinder it.”
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