Abstract
A major media campaign began in France on June 2009 at the initiative of a member of the communist party joined by a majority of UMP's, who wanted to condemn the wearing of burqas and the niqab in Public schools and other public services. This campaign has been amplified by the President of the Republic who wanted to defend the idea of a secular country. Thus a parliament commission is actually dealing with the idea of banning the burqa (or the niqab) in France. Let us start by a definition of the word burqa. The word burqa sometimes spelled burka, or more rarely bourka is commonly used to define a full veil. It is a generic term to designate the kind of clothing that hide the entire bodies of Muslim women. The burqa (new version) is a recent invention of the fundamentalist Salafist movement. With this garment invented only about twenty years ago, the imprisonment of women is more than with a full chador since there are gloves to hide their hands, and feet are also hidden. The full veil, which emphasizes Islamic tradition, has been present over the last twenty years in the most retrograde parts of the Muslim communities around the world. Many of Islamic chiefs of cults around the world judge that wearing the burqa considerably exceeds this tradition, and it is not based on any Koranic injunction. They prefer the veil, leaving the face uncovered. Some of them rather like the absence of any veil and the self-interiority of the religious practice. Now let us deal with this issue: Can you become French when wearing the burqa, the garment that fully covers women, except for eyes, in the most rigorous Muslims countries?
