Tuesday, October 31, 2006

France ,Italy and the veil

Back again to the veil and Naqab issue in Europe , after the Straw's statements , Europe got a rush of discussion of veil and whether it goes with the European culture or not , and whether it is a personal freedom or not and more important whether those Muslims who live in Europe are to be considered Europeans or they just are aliens ,not welcomed in Europe and must be sent either in to their mother countries or to jails !!

I won't go through whys and becauses ,it is as I said before a collection of reasons and misunderstanding from both sides

but I will speak about the official statements of two important leading European countries France and Italy

Where as UK is trying to solve the problem with the Muslim community quietly on the official level with more reason limiting the problem to include only the Naqab not the veil or the headscarf as a sign from the separation from the society, France decided to escalate it more and more. Already you remember France issued a law that prohibits the religious signs including the veil in public schools , the law caused a lot of troubles and there were protests across France and the Muslim world and France tried to assure to the Arab world that this is not a campaign against Islam , and it is only in the public schools and they respect Veil and Islamic traditions to the End of this fancy diplomatic talk

Well it turned out that the official French didn't change its position from the Islamic veil , and here I don't mean the Naqab but the simple headscarf , and thus it was n't a surprise that the ordered the Saudi girls who study in France medicine to wear those surgical head thing over their heads instead of the veil because it is a religious sign that can chaos or sensitive issues in the hospital !!

But it was a surprise when France led the crusade in the EU calling for prohibiting the veil in Europe ,really you see when they prohibit the veil in the public schools ,they said it is not about Islam or the veil ,it is for religious signs what ever the religion was , but now it seems as something against Islam and Muslims for sure .

I will presume it is more politically than religiously because I feel what France is trying to do here is simply another attempt to create an obstacle for Turkey to join the EU , the Armens massacre is not enough for sure , something must be created to make the Turks themselves to refuse to join the EU , the people them, already Religion returned powerfully in Turkey after decades of Atturk's secular legacy ,Wearing Veil rates among women in Turkey is exceeding not on a yearly but a monthly basis , so if you prohibit the veil in EU ,then you will create a problem to the Turkish regime who is after all these many years of religious oppression and attempt to cancel the Islamic identity of the country failed , the regime won't force those ladies to take off the veil "their headscarf" , they can't

Now I see France since the war of Lebanon it is losing its popularity more rapidly in the Arabic and Muslim street , but the one who is wining more and more popularity is Italy ,since Romano Prody took control of the cabinet in Rome and the relations are getting better and better after years of hate

I read a statement for his interior minister very beautiful and diplomatic , he is against prohibiting the veil in EU just like his prime minister and he said that

Veil gives a glimpse of beauty to the Muslim woman

This minister also hinted to important not only Muslim woman wear veil or headscarf , Catholic ladies also wear ,

so if they want to prohibit the veil/headscarf in EU , they must prohibit it altogether

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