It has already been banned for some time in France and Belgium, banned with a recent referendum in Switzerland, and the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU), which is the sister party in the state of Bavaria to the ruling CDU of Chancellor Angela Merkel, is pressing Berlin to support a burqa ban in Germany.
Ilse Aigner, finance minister in Bavaria, said: “The law on a burqa ban should be quickly passed by the government.
“It is first and foremost about showing one’s face. It’s about living together as a society and seeing one another. It doesn’t fit to our society to hide oneself, and it contradicts our idea of sexual equality.”
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