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**Si8jy8HN** · 09-16-2010, 12:18 AM

If that figure it anywhere near true, it sounds like they're picking on a very small number of people. Almost similar to Switzerlands ban on minarets. I would have thought that France was being overrun by women wearing burqas. I hope that France doesn't have a terrible backlash from this.

Actually full coverage burqas are more popular here in the US with African-American converts than with immigrants from Muslim countries. Immigrants may dress conservatively, wear a scarf but the full coverage is not usually what immigrants here choose. Which is interesting in and of itself, I suppose.

Very few women in France wear burqas but for people who have never been to France it may be surprising how much of an immigrant city Paris and other large cities are. Paris these days is as full of immigrants from around the world as New York is. The burqua law is as much about French people uncomfortable with that as some of the dummer English-only laws here - the ones that say for example the government can't produce non-English brochures to stop the spread infectious diseases in immigrant communities leap immediately to mind.

09-16-2010, 12:18 AM	#26
Si8jy8HN Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 485 Senior Member	If that figure it anywhere near true, it sounds like they're picking on a very small number of people. Almost similar to Switzerlands ban on minarets. I would have thought that France was being overrun by women wearing burqas. I hope that France doesn't have a terrible backlash from this. Actually full coverage burqas are more popular here in the US with African-American converts than with immigrants from Muslim countries. Immigrants may dress conservatively, wear a scarf but the full coverage is not usually what immigrants here choose. Which is interesting in and of itself, I suppose. Very few women in France wear burqas but for people who have never been to France it may be surprising how much of an immigrant city Paris and other large cities are. Paris these days is as full of immigrants from around the world as New York is. The burqua law is as much about French people uncomfortable with that as some of the dummer English-only laws here - the ones that say for example the government can't produce non-English brochures to stop the spread infectious diseases in immigrant communities leap immediately to mind.
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