Switzerland bans face coverings amid charges of ‘sexism’ and ‘Islamophobia’

[duluxe]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56314173


Switzerland has narrowly voted in favour of banning face coverings in public, including the burka or niqab worn by Muslim women.

Official results showed the measure had passed by 51.2% to 48.8% in Sunday’s referendum.

The proposal was put forward by the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP) which campaigned with slogans such as “Stop extremism”.

A leading Swiss Islamic group said it was “a dark day” for Muslims.

“Today’s decision opens old wounds, further expands the principle of legal inequality, and sends a clear signal of exclusion to the Muslim minority,” the Central Council of Muslims said in a statement, adding that it would challenge the decision in court.

The Swiss government had argued against the ban saying it was not up to the state to dictate what women wear.

According to research by the University of Lucerne (in German), almost no-one in Switzerland wears a burka and only around 30 women wear the niqab. About 5% of Switzerland’s population of 8.6 million people are Muslim, most originating from Turkey, Bosnia and Kosovo.

Swiss people are given a direct say in their own affairs under the country’s system of direct democracy. They are regularly invited to vote on various issues in national or regional referendums.

It is not the first time Islam has figured in a Swiss referendum. In 2009 citizens went against government advice and voted to ban the building of minarets – a proposal also put forward by the SVP which said minarets were a sign of Islamisation.

The proposal in Sunday’s referendum did not mention Islam directly and was also aimed at stopping violent street protesters from wearing masks. However, the vote was widely referred to as “the burka ban”.

The latest proposal predated the coronavirus pandemic, which has meant all Swiss adults having to wear masks in many settings.

Swiss voters give face covering ban a ‘jein’

Analysis by Imogen Foulkes, BBC News, Geneva

Was today’s vote about all face coverings, from niqabs and burkas to the scarves rioters sometimes pull over their faces?

That’s what the Yes campaigners from the Swiss People’s Party insisted – but their posters and literature said otherwise, showing threatening looking women in black niqabs, and warning of Islamic extremism.

So does the result mean the Swiss are becoming more extreme? Are they Islamophobic?

Perhaps not…..

 

[duluxe]

 

[bobby]

If you express your opinions which happens to be against the belief of one culture or lifestyle...you are always deemed a "phobia".

Why cannot one just say they don't like it, per se, and get away with it.

 

[syed putra]

So no face mask in Switzerland yes?
They should fo a research if wearing a burka reduces chance of getting infectious diseases such as flu, common cold and covid,

 

[bobby]

I wonder why these staunch Muslims want to even live in non Muslim country.....

 

[Leongsam]

If the muslims are not happy they can fuck off back to where they came from.

 

[A Singaporean]

Sinkieland should do the same.

 

[syed putra]

They are refugees. Have mercy. Where is the compassion. Switzerland snd UK harboured jewish refugees ftom france when they were expelled and look at the contribution of these people to the economy of the both in terms of watch making and finance.

 

[syed putra]

Sinkieland should do the same.

Muslims were here first.

 

[Leongsam]

So does the result mean the Swiss are becoming more extreme? Are they Islamophobic?

Perhaps not…..

Islam does not require face coverings.

 

[A Singaporean]

Muslims were here first.

So what?. Native Americans were there first too.

 

[laksaboy]

Things will improve when Angela Merkel fucks off and a proper right wing (AfD) leader becomes the Chancellor of Germany.

 

[syed putra]

Things will improve when Angela Merkel fucks off and a proper right wing (AfD) leader becomes the Chancellor of Germany.

It won't happen. Germany need workers. Even the small towns. Maybe the 1 million refugees insufficient.

 

[duluxe]

Islam does not require face coverings.

(Quran 24:31) And tell the believing women to reduce of their vision and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that which appears thereof and to wrap [a portion of] their headcovers over their chests and not expose their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands’ fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers, their brothers’ sons, their sisters’ sons, their women, that which their right hands possess, or those male attendants having no physical desire, or children who are not yet aware of the private aspects of women. And let them not stamp their feet to make known what they conceal of their adornment. And turn to Allah in repentance, all of you, O believers, that you might succeed.

If a woman does not cover, she is fair game to be assaulted….

(Quran 33:59) O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves of their outer garments. That is more suitable that they will be known and not be abused.

 

[ChristJohnny]

Low IQ people has no place in a high IQ country ... Europe will live to regret when they started to welcome refugees from lesser countries ... they have been warned.

IQ and Race

 

[syed putra]

Low IQ people has no place in a high IQ country ... Europe will live to regret when they started to welcome refugees from lesser countries ... they have been warned.

IQ and Race
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Those from middle east are similarly european. They were under persian, greek, roman snd arabs. They may speak arabic but the dna not so.

 

[rushifa666]

Everyday is a dark day for muslims. Its called a mirror

 

[Leongsam]

If a woman does not cover, she is fair game to be assaulted….

Where does it say face coverings are required?

 

[tanwahtiu]

Allowed men to walk naked or expose the cocks and see these cult bitches will be against such act...

This will made them pack up and go back where they came from..