Nicholas Sarkozy to 'ban muslim veils'

[ToxicPaddy]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090622...s-b3150e0.html

Bloody good on him too, wish our PM would start doing stuff like this, and stop worrying about 'offending people' :/

[LuketheDuke]

Im not sure about this, whilst the ban on veils in schools keeps them strictly partisan the way they should be to do it in every day society is a big leap.

Will it encourage participation and understanding of different ethnic backgrounds? Could provoke more problems than it sets out to solve.

[GommeInc]

Im not sure about this, whilst the ban on veils in schools keeps them strictly partisan the way they should be to do it in every day society is a big leap.

Will it encourage participation and understanding of different ethnic backgrounds? Could provoke more problems than it sets out to solve.

I'm guessing it's an eye for an eye situation. In one of the veil wearing countries they don't wear veils other than for when they go to another country (very strange looking story) so banning them kinda puts an end to contradictions and hypocrisy.

[LuketheDuke]

I'm guessing it's an eye for an eye situation. In one of the veil wearing countries they don't wear veils other than for when they go to another country (very strange looking story) so banning them kinda puts an end to contradictions and hypocrisy.

Itd be nice if religion could be sidelined to private practice upon certain secular groups and then in public everyone could remove anything thatd tie them to such practices to keep it neutral but can anybody ever see that happening?

Its a delicate issue thats for certain/

[CHA!NGANG]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090622...s-b3150e0.html

Bloody good on him too, wish our PM would start doing stuff like this, and stop worrying about 'offending people' :/

That's not very open minded is it.. No he shouldn't ban people from wearing them in my opinion. Maybe from schools, and I can see why that can happen but in public spaces, no. It's a free right for people to wear what they feel comfortable in and this is also for religious issues and I think that he is wrong for banning them.

[ashyboy999]

its good to find someone who has a backbone literally.

this 2 faced hypocritical view does my head in:

its wrong to discriminate muslims who wear viels or burhkas, literally clothed head to toe so u dont know who they are.

but its right to discriminate against white or black youths for wearing tracksuits?

its alright for muslims to protest our traditions and our ways of life but its not alright for us to do the same back its rascism lol.

we have a government of hypocrits here. its one rule for islamics another for us and thats completely wrong to be living in a society like that.

[Wahey]

Good! He's my fave mp now :@

[efq]

I am not entirely sure but i'm not saying its a bad idea. But what makes it best is that he hes the guts to do it and thats what you need in this world.

[Niall!]

I could run for Prime Minister and I would win you know.

I agree with many people that the society in UK is now such that we can't even fly our flag without people claiming racism. If I were Prime Minister, I would tell them to learn the traditions of our country and if they refuse because of religion, I would tell them to get out.

[Titch]

I could run for Prime Minister and I would win you know.

I agree with many people that the society in UK is now such that we can't even fly our flag without people claiming racism. If I were Prime Minister, I would tell them to learn the traditions of our country and if they refuse because of religion, I would tell them to get out.

Sounding a bit like jeremy clarkson there