UD has been writing against the burqa for years.
It has been gratifying to track global efforts to suppress it. Here’s the latest.
The European Parliament’s biggest political grouping has said it supports the introduction of a European Union-wide ban on Islamic face veils.
The European People’s Party adopted the measure as an official policy at its annual congress in Malta this week, claiming that the ban should be introduced “both for reasons of security and because seeing one another’s faces is an integral part of human interaction in Europe”.
The EPP, a centre-right liberal conservative grouping, holds 216 seats in the 751 member European Parliament and is affiliated with major governing parties such as Angela Merkel’s CDU, the French Republicains and Spain’s People’s Party.
I’d revise that statement about “seeing one another’s faces” and “human interaction.” Seeing women’s faces; and, since they can barely see (and have virtually no peripheral vision) out of their eye netting, and since their mouths are covered, female interaction. Let’s be as honest and precise as we can about this: Burqas and niqabs erase women.