Jutawan Perancis Sanggup Bayar Denda Wanita Pakai BURKA!

Perancis mungkin akan mengharamkan pemakaian burka bermula penghujung September selepas beberapa siri undian yang dijalankan di Parlimen negara itu. Keputusan itu sudah tentu mencetuskan kemarahan warganegara Perancis yang beragama Islam yang kini mencecah 5 juta orang.

Tindakan kerajaan Perancis itu telah mendorong jutawan Perancis menubuhkan tabung/dana untuk membantu wanita Muslim yang dikenakan denda kerana memakai burka jika larangan menutup muka di tempat awam dikuatkuasakan di negara tersebut.

Tokoh perniagaan Muslim, Rachid Nekkaz, berikrar akan menjual hartanya yang berjumlah Euro1 juta di Paris untuk membiayai tabung/dana tersebut.

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>> France could ban burkhas by the end of September after a series of parliamentary votes was scheduled to begin.

Deputies, or members of the lower house, are tomorrow likely to approve the measure outlawing face-covering veils despite outrage among the country’s 5million Muslims.

Now a French tycoon is setting up a fund to help Muslim women pay 'burka fines' for hiding their faces in public.

Muslim businessman Rachid Nekkaz has today pledged to sell off 1million euros (£840,000) worth of property in Paris for the fund.

In an open letter published in national newspapers, he said a burka ban was unconstitutional and any woman fined for hiding her face could come to him for help.

The ban could be ratified in September when Senators are almost certain to approve the ban which has received overwhelming support from voters

There was little resistance among lawmakers today as they debated the bill that proposes to fine wearers £140 and imprison men who force their wives to put on the outfit.

But the ban could be shot down by France's constitutional watchdog or the European Court of Human Rights.

That could dampen efforts under way in other European countries toward banning the veils.

It would also be a humiliation for President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative government, which has devoted much attention to a bill that would affect only an estimated 1,900 women in France.

The main body representing French Muslims says face-covering veils are not required by Islam and not suitable in France, but it worries that the law will stigmatize Muslims in general.

The niqab and burkha are widely seen in France as a gateway to extremism and an attack on women's rights and secularism, a central value of modern-day France. Critics say a ban is a cynical ploy to attract far-right voters.

The government has struggled - and failed, some legal observers say - to come up with a strong legal basis for a ban.

In March, France's highest administrative body, the Council of State, warned that it could be found unconstitutional. It rejected possible legal justifications one by one, including the French tradition of secularism, equality for women, human dignity and concerns about public security.

In the end, the government's central legal argument is that covering one's face doesn't square with French values.

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