Unveiling Europe

    In the article "Unveiling Europe" by Veronica Majerol explains that in France there is an new law that forbids covering one's face in public. For most religious women it affected an estimate of 2,000 French Muslim women. One women named Hind Ahmas , 33, has broken the law more than she can count. She broken the law because she wears her Niqab which is a head-to-toe veil that only has a slit to see out of. If women had to do this all over the world them their would be plenty of people getting fines...everyday. It's a women's constitutional right to wear her veil anywhere at anytime. In the article Veronica Majerol explains that veils in the U.S. is a Florida judge ruled in 2003 that a Muslim woman had to remove her nijab for a driver's license photo. 

   There also are other places that have a local prohibitions on veils. Places like Italy, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Great Britain, and Denmark. Marco Perolini, at Amnesty's London office said "This is an issue relating to the right of freedom of expression in general." He says the ban also infringes on women's freedoms of speech and belief. 

   I think that it's bad to have a policy on whether or not women can wear their veils. If it's their religion they should be able to wear their veil. But their are pro's and con's to this situation. A few pro's are women wear their veils because it's their religion it's almost like breaking their laws when they take their veils off. There are many more con's than you think. For example, little girl that just got found in January after being kidnapped. There was a women that had a veil in that kidnapped her..what if she wasn't really Muslim and just had the veil to get the little girl. Then when people rob stores or banks then it could really be a man in a veil that just put a veil on so no one can get his identity. You never know. Going out in public with a veil or Niqab on can be a good thing but then again a bad thing.