A senior German politician called for a nationwide burqa ban.The Bavarian State Minister of Economic Affairs Ilse Aigner also proposed that there should be a law that would be applicable to the tourists from the Arab world in this regard.
Aigner was speaking to German newspaper Die Welt after her party congress in Munich recently approved two proposals, one a burqa ban (the full body covering) and one a ban on the niqab (the face veil).
“When I have traveled to Iran, I have obeyed the country’s commandments and worn a headscarf. Likewise, I expect women from the Arab world visiting this country to give up the full-face veil. Such laws are not just for people with German citizenship,” She said.
She called for the Christian Social Union’s policy of a niqab and burqa ban to be adopted by Germany as a whole.
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