14th July 2010Following a Belgian ban on the burkha the French parliament has adopted a formal motion that the burkha is "an affront to the nation's values".
President Nicolas Sarkozy supports the ban and his cabinet is considering a draft bill featuring a one-year prison sentence and fines up to £14,000 on husbands who force their wives to wear a burkha.
The new law would create an offence of "incitement to cover the face for reasons of gender".
Poor Michael Jackson must be spinning in his grave.
