Denmark bans the burqua

[sprintcyclist]

................Denmark has banned the wearing of face veils in public, joining France and other parts of Europe in outlawing the burqa and the niqab worn by some Muslim women.
Parliament voted on Thursday for the law proposed by the centre-right government which said face veils were contrary to Danish values. Opponents say the ban, that comes into effect on August 1 infringes women's right to dress as they choose.

Denmark has become the latest European country to ban the full-face veil worn by some Muslim women. Critics say that infringes women's rights to wear what they choose.

Justice Minister Soren Pape Poulsen said police would not order offenders to remove their veils, but would fine them and tell them to go home.
Fines will range from 1000 Danish crowns ($207) for a first offence to 10,000 crowns for the fourth violation.
Denmark has struggled for decades with how to integrate non-Western immigrants into its welfare state. Public debate intensified in 2015 with the arrival of large groups of refugees from conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere.
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The anti-immigrant Danish People's Party became the second-largest party in an election that year and now supports the coalition government in Parliament.


Pape Poulsen, who leads the conservative party in the coalition, has described keeping one's face hidden in public as "incompatible with the values ​​of Danish society or respect for the community to keep the face hidden when meeting each other in the public space".
Zainab Ibn Hssain, 20, who lives in Copenhagen and has been wearing the niqab for the past year, told Reuters: "It's not nice. It will mean that I won't be able to go to school, go to work or go out with my family.
"But I won't take my niqab off so I have to find another solution," she added.
She rejected suggestions that wearing the veil symbolised the rejection of Danish values or oppression of women.
"It has nothing to do with integration or that we're oppressed. For me it is a war on Islam," she said.
Human rights group Amnesty International called the ban "a discriminatory violation of women's rights".
"All women should be free to dress as they please and to wear clothing that expresses their identity or beliefs," it said.
Ibn Hssain, who says she has been yelled at and spat at in public for wearing the niqab, will stay in Denmark for now despite the ban.
"If I leave Denmark, the politicians win. I feel what they deep down want is for Muslims to leave Denmark," she said............

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