Burqas in Italy

[US Seagull]

Italian woman ticketed for wearing a burqa

ROME - An Italian woman who is married to an Arab man and converted to Islam, has been ticketed twice in the past week for wearing a burqa in her small village in the province of Como.

The ticket was based on the violation of Article 85 of a package of security laws imposed in 1931 under the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, which forbids citizens to “mask themselves in public.”

Any comments? Is this narrow-mindedness by Italian villagers or a disregard for social norms by the woman in the burqa? Should the authorities be allowed to demand that she remove the vail?

 

[e77]

Hardly helps cement relations between Muslims and the west.

 

[dougdeep]

Wearing a burga? I'd like to meat her!

 

[34064 Fighter Command]

Here's my comment -

 

[Tom Bombadil]

These sort of measures are counter-productive. Let people wear what they like.

 

[bhafc4eva]

Treat them all as potential terrorists just to be on the safe side, it could be anyone under that batman cloak.

 

[Tooting Gull]

Given most of our D-List celebrities are currently using European Human Rights laws to keep their sordid activities out of the papers, I imagine any half-decent lawyer could get that one reversed.

 

[Jesus Gul]

ticketed twice?

surely she should have been clamped and towed away to the pound after the first offence.

 

[JJ McClure]

I thought this was going to be a thread about the quality of Italian fastfood