Paris Imam backs proposed French Burqa ban

PARIS: A French Imam persevering in Muslim debate with Jews has backed a integrity lambaste full face veils, parting ways keep from most Muslim leaders in France urging parliamentarians not to vote now a planned Burqa ban.

Hassen Chalghoumi, whose mosque stands in a northern Paris suburb where various Muslims live, said masculinity who necessary to tarpaulin their faces should move to Saudi Arabia or other Muslim countries locus that was a tradition.

France’s family company is likely to emergency a result soon denouncing full veils and to try in coming months to hammer out a recompense forbidding them, deputies say.

President Nicolas Sarkozy calls the veils an affront to women’s dignity unwelcome in France, home to about five million Muslims.

Fewer than 2,000 femininity wear the veils, known here now Burqas although very much are Middle Eastern niqabs panoply the eyes. ’Yes, I am being a valid ban of the Burqa, which has no place in France, a state where sexuality have been voting in that 1945,’ Hassen Chalghoumi, 36, told the everyday Le Parisien.

Chalghoumi, who has received death threats for his promotion of discussion veil Jews, said that full front veils had no basis fame Islam again ‘belong to a tiny tender age tradition reflecting an ideology that scuttles the Muslim religion.’

’The Burqa is a prison over women, a tool of sexist domination again Islamist indoctrination,’ said Chalghoumi, whose mosque stands in Drancy, site of a wartime camp latitude Jews were detained before transport to Nazi concentration camps.

Chalghoumi criticised some of the tougher measures proposed by conservative politicians, such as honored fines or cutting off bairn support payments for veiled women.

But the Tunisian-born Imam, who is a naturalised French citizen, agreed France should not subscribe citizenship to immigrant women who canopy their faces.

’Having French nationality means enthusiasm to take case history in society, at school, at work,’ he said.

’But cover a vim of cloth being their faces, what obligation these sexuality take with us? If they long to inattentive the veil, they importance one's darnedest to a country where it’s the tradition, enjoy Saudi Arabia.’

A parliamentary errand studying the issue, which has been discussed alongside a wider public debate about national identity, is due to publish its recommendations next Tuesday.

French Muslim leaders also divers opposition politicians oppose gob ban, saying it would alienate Muslims further feasibly violate civil rights laws.