Because he can’t: he hasn’t got the enforcers, neither has he got the balls!
Freedom Sack Parade
‘Le Flic”- the police, is unable to enforce the ban, that’s all there’s to it.
The French are impotent and incapable to control their muslim ghettoes. (750 ‘no-go zones!) And they don’t dare to take the muslims on over that.
H/T Weasel Zippers:
Pathetic: “France will oppose but not ban burqas”
Translation: “France will oppose, but not fight the Nazis…”
By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor/al Reuters
PARIS (Reuters) – France will issue recommendations against full face veils but not pass a law barring Muslim women from wearing them, a leading backer of a legal ban said on Friday.
Andre Gerin, chairman of a parliamentary inquiry into use of full face veils in France, reluctantly ruled out a ban one day after President Nicolas Sarkozy repeated his conviction that “France is a country that has no place for the burqa.”
France banned Muslim headscarves in state schools in 2004 following a similar inquiry and looked set to bring in an outright ban on veils coverings the whole face, such as burqas or niqabs, when it launched the panel last June at the request of Gerin, a Communist deputy from Lyon.
But at its weekly hearings, legal experts, local officials, Muslim leaders and even some militant secularists have told the deputies on the panel that a ban could be anti-constitutional, counterproductive and impossible to enforce.
Gerin, who denounces the head-to-toe veils as “walking coffins,” told Europe 1 radio: “We’ll end up with recommendations … not a law in itself against the burqa, maybe a symbolic law, a law of liberation (of women).”
Backing off from a complete ban, he said the panel might propose “radical measures” to ban full face veils in municipal hospitals and other public institutions, but gave no details.
France, whose five million Muslims make up Europe’s largest Islamic minority, has been criticized in the Muslim world for considering a burqa ban. French Islamic community leaders have warned against passing a law that would stigmatize Muslims.
PRE-ELECTION DEBATE
Skepticism about a ban grew after a police report said only 367 women in France wore such veils, which are common in Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia but not in the North African countries where most Muslim immigrants to France came from.
Another estimate spoke of about a thousand such veils.
The veil inquiry coincides with Sarkozy’s plan for a public debate about immigration and national identity due to culminate in a conference just before regional elections next March.
The opposition Socialist Party accuses him of stirring up the issue to poach anti-immigration voters from the far-right. Winning those voters away from the National Front party was a key to Sarkozy’s election as president in 2007.
Gerin said the panel was studying a possible ban on all face coverings in public, an approach experts also cast doubt on.
“We can’t impose a state of permanent control on citizens,” legal expert Remi Schwartz told the panel. “That would mean everyone should be identifiable at all times, which would make public space into a vast zone of video surveillance.”
Law professor Denys de Bechillon challenged Gerin’s argument that full facial veils broke French law because they violated women’s rights and dignity. Continued…
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OT but related – Scotland commits multi-cultural suicide:
scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2009/11/13100407
Standing up for a multi-cultural Scotland
13/11/2009
Deputy First Minister condemns groups that perpetuate hatred and bigotry.
Nicola Sturgeon will attend and speak at the Scotland United rally in Glasgow tomorrow.
The Scottish Government’s vision is of a Scotland that embraces diversity and fosters a sense of common purpose and goals.
Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said:
“Scotland is rightly proud of its multi-cultural diversity. A place where people from all backgrounds – irrespective of their race, faith, belief and place of birth – feel respected.
“We want all our citizens to play a part in shaping our nation’s future articulating the hopes of a diverse, multi-cultural, modern Scotland.
“As the far-right Scottish Defence League prepares an anti-Islamic demonstration in Glasgow on Saturday, it is important for the whole nation to send a clear message condemning all forms of bigotry and discrimination.
“To show opposition to that demonstration, like thousands of others, I will attend the Scotland United rally in Glasgow to stand shoulder to shoulder with Scotland’s Muslim communities.”
[Any "bigotry" and "discrimination" in the koran, as mandated by allah & imposed by its minders will be embraced & encouraged]
“Stand shoulder to shoulder with Scotland’s Muslim communities.” Oh dear. I hope she’s prepared to become a full-time muslim pretty soon, otherwise “shoulders” is all she’ll have left, as she will be decapitated if she refuses.
Or perhaps the “muslim community” will have fallen in with EU regulations by then and only shoot or hang the dissidents, so as to be more in tune with modern, civilised societies.
I always have difficulty in how to “grasp” diversity. I can “grasp” at most two people at a time, or two distinct cultures, mine and another, at a time. But grasping “diversity” is beyond me.
What I would like is a YouTube video that shows how to “grasp” diversity.
That is so PC defend the biggest hate filled bigots the world has ever seen. Eventually this left fuelled twaddle is going to collapse into the big pile of ordur that it really is.