... barring Muslim women from wearing them, a leading backer of a legal ban said on Friday. Andre Gerin, chairman of ... some militant secularists have told the deputies on the panel that a ban could be anti-constitutional, counterproductive and impossible to enforce. ... Islamic minority, has been criticized in the Muslim world for considering a burqa ban. French Islamic community leaders have warned ...

... Communist parliamentarian André Gerin, a leading proponent of a ban on full facial veils here, is an old hand at avoiding answering ... After ducking the persistent question “will you propose a legal ban?” several times, he finally admitted that, well … uh … there wouldn’t be a ban after all. There would be “recommendations” that could be supported by Muslim ...

... However, it now seems that the proposal will simply be a 'recommendation', without any legal force. The news comes from an interview with Andre Gerin, a leading proponent of the ban. After being pressed quite hard on French radio he eventually admitted that there would be no legal ban. Mouse feels this is a good thing. France's approach to secularism ...

... examples of lawyers who have analysed the Swiss minaret ban on their blogs: Actualités du droit, Gilles ... Law, Vihar Georgiev: The Swiss Ban on Minarets: Legal implications (30 November 2009) ... obligations of Switzerland. Let the corrective mechanisms take over. They can at least right the wrong in a legal sense, although they can do little to improve the image of Switzerland and the Swiss. ...

... Constitution.) Supporters of a ban claim that allowing minarets would represent the growth of an ideology and a legal system ... attempt to excuse discrimination against religion, makes the ban worse, not better. But others say... One hardly needs to hear from the other side. The supporters ... Organisations, Tamir Hadjipolu, told the BBC that if the ban was implemented, Switzerland's Muslim community ...

... 's Mufti Ali Gomaa denounced a vote to ban new minarets in Switzerland on Sunday as an "insult" to ... . A solid majority of Swiss voters chose in a referendum to ban the construction of new minarets, the towers attached to mosques from which ... -strong Muslim community to use "dialogue" and legal means to contest the ban, which he described as "provocative behaviour." ...