France denies citizenship to man who forces wife to wear Islamic veil

France denies citizenship to man who forces wife to wear Islamic veil



Faiza Silmi, a 32-year-old Moroccan, is shown here last month walking in Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis, southwest of Paris. A French parliamentary panel has recommended a ban on face-covering Muslim veils in public areas from hospitals to schools but will stop short of pressing for the garb to be outlawed in the street.
CAPTIONBy Christophe Ena, APFrench immigration authorities have denied citizenship to a man who forces his wife to wear the full-body Islamic veil, saying it runs counter to French values and violates gender equality.


"If this man does not want to change his attitude, he has no place in our country, Prime Minister Francois Fillon tells Europe 1 radio, AFP reports. "In any case, he does not deserve French nationality."

Le Figaro says the man, who needs French citizenship to settle in France with his wife, came from Morocco.

if only we looked after our own women equally well.

...I think the French did the right thing here.

If an observant Muslim woman wishes to dress this way in a free scoiety, it's her choice, not her husband's.

Don't want to assimilate into a Western country, stay where you are. Very simple.

He should wangled a way to come to the US, which can't pander to religious freaks enough. Going to secular France? Dude needs to grow a brain.