"In our country, we cannot accept that women be prisoners behind a screen, cut off from all social life, deprived of all identity...the burqa is not a religious sign, it's a sign of subservience, a sign of debasement—I want to say it solemnly. It will not be welcome on the territory of the French Republic." Sarkozy Wants To Ban Burqas
"In our country, we cannot accept that women be prisoners behind a screen, cut off from all social life, deprived of all identity...the burqa is not a religious sign, it's a sign of subservience, a sign of debasement—I want to say it solemnly. It will not be welcome on the territory of the French Republic."