Denmark looks set to become the next European country to restrict the burqa and the niqab, worn by some Muslim women, after most parties in the Danish parliament backed some sort of ban on facial coverings. “This is not a ban on religious clothing, this is a ban on masking,” Jacob Ellemann-Jensen, spokesman for the Liberal Party, told reporters on Friday after his party, the largest in the coalition government, decided to back a ban. “There will come a masking ban in Denmark. The Social Democrats, Denmark’s biggest party, has also signaled support in principle for a ban on garments such as the burqa, which it said oppressed women. Norway’s government in June proposed a ban on face-covering Muslim veils in kindergartens, schools and universities.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 07, 2017 03:45 UTC