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Swiss lawmakers approve step towards burqa ban
« on: September 27, 2016, 04:12:04 pm »

Swiss lawmakers approve step towards burqa ban
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By AFP     1 hour ago in World

Switzerland's lower house on Tuesday narrowly approved a draft bill on a nationwide burqa ban, the ATS news agency reported, but the measure remains far from coming into force.

The proposal by lawmaker Walter Wobmann of the populist right-wing Swiss Peoples Party (SVP) won 88 votes, with 87 against.

Wobmann's bill was nearly identical to a measure approved in a 2013 referendum in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino banning the full-face Islamic veil.

Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/swiss-lawmakers-approve-step-towards-burqa-ban/article/475836#ixzz4LTPHYgoB
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Re: Swiss lawmakers approve step towards burqa ban
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2016, 01:22:57 am »
I'm hoping this passes.

I would like to see it made legal for anyone wearing a burqha --- to be subject of having it ripped off them by ordinary citizens.

Say what you wish.
I don't care.
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