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2018-09-24 Europe

Swiss region overwhelmingly votes for 'burqa ban'

[DAWN] A second Swiss canton will introduce a regional "burqa ban", after voters in St Gallen on Sunday emphatically backed prohibiting all face-covering garments in public spaces.

At the same time, voters across Switzerland
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
resoundingly rejected initiatives aimed at boosting local farming and promoting more ethical and environmental standards in food production, amid fears of cost hikes and reduced consumer choice.

In the northeastern canton of St Gallen, nearly 67 per cent of voters came out in favour of introducing the implicit "burqa ban", according to official results, which showed turnout was 36 per cent.

That paves the way for the canton to follow the example of the southern region of Ticino, where a law was introduced two years ago that appeared to be aimed at burqas and other Moslem veils.

Three other cantons ‐ Zurich, Solothurn and Glarus ‐ have rejected introducing such bans in recent years.

A text stipulating that "any person who renders themselves unrecognisable by covering their face in a public space, and thus endangers public security or social and religious peace will be fined" was adopted by politicians in St Gallen late last year.

Posted by Fred 2018-09-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [18 views ] Top
File under: Moslem Colonists

#1 What about snorkel parkas?
Winter's coming.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-09-24 07:25|| 2018-09-24 07:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Police hunt bank robber who disguised himself as a Muslim woman in a hijab in Austria after cops caught another man doing the same thing last month

Posted by Skidmark 2018-09-24 09:29|| 2018-09-24 09:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Wossamatter? Dey don't got no wimmens with the Lions of Islam courage to knock over a bank? No Patricia Hearsts?

Posted by Bobby 2018-09-24 10:19|| 2018-09-24 10:19|| Front Page Top

#4 St Gallen was the first place the Irish Christians established a church at the end of the "so called" dark ages

Posted by 746 2018-09-24 10:38|| 2018-09-24 10:38|| Front Page Top

#5 ...and remains a hotbed of religious and musical extremism to this day.

Posted by Ulusong Sholusing2021 2018-09-24 12:53|| 2018-09-24 12:53|| Front Page Top

#6 St Gallen was the first place...

A bit of a trek from Ireland, 746, but it’s supposed to be a pretty place. I have —or at least had as of the 1990s — cousins there.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-09-24 13:31|| 2018-09-24 13:31|| Front Page Top

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