Swedish soccer hooligans wear Muslim niqabs to get around newly imposed mask ban

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Swedish soccer hooligans wear Muslim niqabs to get around newly imposed mask ban
By Marissa Payne April 4 at 2:30 PM

    When Swedish law forbids masks/hiding faces in public places, but permits it for religious reasons… AIK fans adapt to conceal identities. pic.twitter.com/LcfRkFJXXV

    — Joel Rookwood (@Joelrookwood) April 4, 2017

Swedish government officials thought they had the perfect solution to curtail violent behavior by masked soccer fans — ban their face coverings. The new law, passed in January and enacted in March, was supposed to prevent extremist fans from “disguising all or part of their face so as to make it more difficult to be identified,” according to the bill’s language (via Sweden’s Local newspaper). To make sure the bill didn’t infringe on anyone’s religious rights, however, the law offers an exemption for “people who cover their face for religious reasons.”

Well, it appears soccer is now a religion in Sweden.

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