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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Asia Pacific World French lawmakers to approve full veil ban AFP - Wednesday, July 14 Send IM Story Print French lawmakers to approve full veil ban PARIS (AFP) - – French lawmakers were poised to vote Tuesday to ban the wearing of face-covering veils in public spaces, as Europe toughens its approach to integrating Muslim immigrant communities. Coming on the eve of Bastille Day, when France celebrates the birth of what was to become a staunchly secular republic, the law was expected to have an easy passage through the National Assembly lower house. Once past this hurdle the bill will go to the Senate, which is expected to approve it in September, but it will then face a stiffer challenge in front of the Constitutional Council, France's highest legal body. For, while President Nicolas Sarkozy's determination to ban the niqab and the burqa has won enough political support, opponents argue that it breaches French and European human rights legislation. Similar laws are pending in Belgium, Spain and some Italian municipalities, but the ban is particularly sensitive in France, whose rundown city suburbs are home to Europe's biggest Muslim minority. Last week, Justice Minister Michele Alliot-Marie told lawmakers debating the bill that its adoption would assert French values and help to better integrate Muslim communities into the national way of life. She said being forced to wear the niqab or the burqa "amounts to being cut off from society and rejecting the very spirit of the French republic that is founded on a desire to live together." "At a time where our societies are becoming more global and complex, the French people are pondering the future of their nation. Our responsibility is to show vigilance and reaffirm our commonly-shared values," she said. Critics say the law exploits a non problem -- only about 1,900 women among France's five to six million Muslims wear a veil -- in a bid to pander to anti-immigration voters and to distract attention from France's economic woes. Most French Muslims come from France's former colonies in North and West Africa, where wearing the veil is rare, rather than from the Arabia peninsula or Pakistan where niqabs and burqas are a cultural tradition. Mohammed Moussaoui, the head of the French Council of the Muslim Faith, a government advisory body, supports steps to discourage women from wearing the full veil, but has said a law would unfairly stigmatise a vulnerable group. Mindful that a law with a broad scope might be struck down by the European court of human rights, which protects religious freedoms, Sarkozy's own ruling party has asked for the text to be examined by the Constitutional Council. Meanwhile, the ban enjoys broad popular support. An international poll conducted in April and May by the Washington-based Pew Research Center found that more than eight in ten French voters supported a ban. The same mood prevailed in Germany, where 71 percent backed a ban, in Britain, with 62 percent, and Spain with 59, in contrast to the United States where two-thirds opposed a ban on full veils in public. In France, opposition Socialists have long argued that the ban should be restricted to state institutions, but they are expected to boycott the vote rather than oppose the bill's passage. Only a handful of Green deputies have said they will vote 'no'. Under the bill, it would be illegal for anyone to cover their faces in public places like streets, parks, public transport or shops. Fines of 150 euros (190 dollars) will be imposed on those caught wearing the veil, after a six month grace period to allow time to educate Muslim women about the ban. Men who force their wives or daughters to cover themselves for religious reasons face stiffer penalties of up to 30,000 euros and a one-year jail term. 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