MIDDLE EAST TIMES: THE HAGUE, The Netherlands -- A Dutch rightwing anti-Islam politician Thursday submitted new proposals for a law banning burqas after an earlier attempt stranded.
In letter to parliament Geert Wilders, who heads the Freedom Party that has nine of the 150 seats in the lower house, wrote that "the burqa and the niqab [Muslim woman's face veil] is a symbol of the oppression of women" and is "in defiance of the democratic constitutional state." Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker in new bid to ban burqas (more)
Mark Alexander
