{"id":246255,"date":"2010-01-29T11:19:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T16:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/?p=11578"},"modified":"2010-01-29T11:19:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T16:19:18","slug":"italy-moves-towards-emulating-france-on-burqa-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/246255","title":{"rendered":"Italy moves towards emulating France on burqa ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11579\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 365px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11579\" title=\"carfagna\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/files\/2010\/01\/carfagna-355x222-custom.jpg\" alt=\"carfagna\" width=\"355\" height=\"222\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Equal Opportunities Minister Mara Carfagna in the Senate in Rome, 15 May 2008\/Max Rossi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Italy may soon seek a ban on full-face Muslim veils, drawing on debate in France where President Nicolas Sarkozy has described the burqa as unwelcome and legislators are considering a vote to outlaw or restrict it. Equal Opportunities Minister Mara Carfagna has said the Italian government will quickly follow in France&#8217;s footsteps, breathing new life into four draft bills on burqas already circulating in parliamentary committees.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I completely agree with the French initiative, which I think will push other European countries and hence, also Italy, to enact laws on this issue,&#8221;<\/em> Carfagna said this week.\u00a0 <em>&#8220;This is about a sacrosanct battle to defend the dignity and rights of immigrant women. A law is being studied that would ban the use of a burqa and niqab, which are not religious symbols &#8212; that&#8217;s not us saying it, but the top religious authorities of the Islamic world, like the imams of Cairo and Paris.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Her comments came after a French parliamentary panel this week urged the National Assembly to pass a resolution denouncing full Muslim face veils and then vote to ban women from wearing them.\u00a0 In Italy, the initiative has drawn strong support from the far-right, anti-immigrant Northern League party in Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi&#8217;s conservative government, though some opposition figures have also applauded the move.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/worldNews\/idINIndia-45812620100129?sp=true\">Read the full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RTRFaithWorld\">Follow FaithWorld on Twitter at RTRFaithWorld<\/a><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n\/\/ <![CDATA[\n          function goToPage(num){\n            var url = document.location.href+\"\";\n            var newurl = url.replace(\/#sl_CommentsInputAnchor\/,\"\");\n            var newNum = 'pageNumber='+num<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>                var sep = (newurl.indexOf('?') >= 0) ? 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