File under ‘Mind you own damn business or go live in one of your 57 Islamic hellholes’
Posted: June 10, 2011 | Author: barenakedislam | Filed under: Islamization of the West | 7 Comments »
A Muslim husband and wife are using a British legal team to launch a landmark human rights challenge to the French ban on face-covering veils. The couple are taking the French government to the European Court of Human Rights over its prohibition on wearing the niqab and burka in a case of importance across the European Union.
Asian Image – They are seeking damages and a ruling that the ban on the full-face veil is “unnecessary, disproportionate and unlawful”.They also contend the blanket ban restricts their right to free 
They are being represented by Robina Shah from the Birmingham-based Immigration Advisory Service, who has lodged their application with the human rights court in Strasbourg, and barrister Ramby de Mello.
Ms Shah said: “The case clearly is of importance to my clients. As a result of the ban they have had to leave their country of nationality, as the ban restricts their freedom of choice, and that of their daughters.”

Documents sent to Strasbourg say the couple “wish to reside and work in France”, where they have strong family connections. Because of the recent laws banning the wearing of full-face veils, “they have considerable reservations about living there on a permanent basis”. (You are free to leave anytime)

But he will be at risk of prosecution under French law if he crosses the Channel because he will admit that “he expects and instructs his wife to wear the niqab/burqa”. The wife, the second applicant in the case, is not forced by her husband to wear the niqab, “but he expects her to do so in public in keeping with his religious and cultural expectation and his authority as her husband”.

When she wears the niqab “she feels at inner peace with herself and her surroundings and is cocooned from the outer world”, say her lawyers. (Well normal people feel outward fear that perhaps there is a bomb underneath that garbage bag on her head)

The wife’s case before the European court is that the French ban breaches the European Convention on Human Rights in many respects. These include the right to respect for private and family life and not to be subjected to inhuman or degrading treatment. The ban is also alleged to interfere with the wife’s right to freedom of expression and “to dress as she pleases in public and to manifest her religious and personally held beliefs in public.”
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