First the Belgian lower chamber votes to ban the burqa; soon France intends to follow suit; now the leading German Liberal in the European Parliament and a vice-president of the assembly has called for a Europe-wide ban on the face-concealing garment.
Silvana Koch-Mehrin, the 40-year-old head of the Free Democrats in Strasbourg, in an opinion piece at the weekend for German tabloid Bild am Sonntag said: "I would like to see the wearing of all forms of the burqa banned in Germany and in ...
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