French police arrest two women wearing veils after burqa ban goes into effect
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 One day after France began enforcing a ban on the public wearing Islamic veils that cover the face, either a niq?b or a burqa, French police briefly detained two veiled women. The police later claimed that the women were arrested for taking part in an unauthorized protest, not because they were wearing veils. The new law is hotly debated. The women were arrested while outside the famed Notre Dame Cathedral inContinue reading