08-17-2016, 08:07 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/01/world/euro...burqa-ban/
I'm a secularist, but the French have taken secularism too far.
The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday [July 1, 2014] rejected a claim by a young Muslim woman that France's ban on the wearing of burqas and niqabs in public violates her rights.
The French law banning the burqa, a full-body covering that includes a mesh over the face, and the niqab, a full-face veil with an opening for the eyes, went into effect in April 2011.
It has pitted religious freedom advocates against those who say the Islamic veil is demeaning to women and inconsistent with France's rigorously enforced secularism.
A 24-year-old French woman brought the case to Europe's top rights court in Strasbourg because she says the ban infringes on her ability to live according to her religious faith, culture and personal convictions.
But the court said Tuesday that it found that the French law doesn't breach the European Convention on Human Rights.
I'm a secularist, but the French have taken secularism too far.