Kenza Drider, a 32-year-old mother of three, was famously bold enough to appear on French television to oppose the law before it came into force. She refuses to take off her niqab – “My husband doesn’t dictate what I do, much less the government” – but she says she now lives in fear of attack. “I still go out in my car, on foot, to the shops, to collect my kids. I’m insulted about three to four times a day,” she says. Most say, “Go home”; some say, “We’ll kill you.” One said: “We’ll do to you what we did to the Jews.” In the worst attack, before the law came in, a man tried to run her down in his car.
Since France introduced its burqa ban in April there have been violent attacks on women wearing the niqab and, this week, the first fines could be handed down. But a legal challenge to this hard line may yet expose the French state as a laughing stock.(source)
(Source: newsflick)
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These photos are why I can’t sleep #ALLsept17 is too important. #takethesquare #takewallstreet
1) https://yfrog.com/nvcz8cj (barcelona) @AcampadaLH yfrog.com/nvcz8cj l’han coronat i tot!! Castells a la Borsa de Barcelona! #17S #tomalabolsa has topped even! Castles in the Barcelona Stock Exchange!
2)yfrog.com/ketb2urj Castells i gralles de fons a la Borsa de Barcelona :))) #17S #tomalabolsa Castles and parsnips in bottom of the Barcelona Stock Exchange.. (parsnips?) maybe google translate isn’t getting the spanish on that..
3) #AgoraParís #sep17 #marchabruselas ces personnes qui nous font sourire! yfrog.com/kkooehmj (people who make us smile Paris) @Acampadaparis
4) https://twitpic.com/6mb2dv (killthepoor) @AyeshaKazmi (NYC)
5) https://twitpic.com/6max8f (cops around bull) @julpepitone (no pics with the bull today…) (NYC)
6) https://yfrog.com/g0plvij (Dissent is patriotic) @AACina (NYC)
7) https://yfrog.com/h7z5sdrj (Theydontgiveafuck) @AACina (NYC)
8) https://yfrog.com/h7s1ystj (cantstopusnow) @AACina (NYC)
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Stay Safe, Stay Peaceful #ALLsept17 protestors!!!! #Sept17 #takethesquare
With that said it is now time for bed.. the livestream embedded on my page should be solid if not try back in an hour. The police scanner link is solid.
Here are the external links:
Here are some livestreams and a live scanner audio feed #occupywallst #takewallstreet:
http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution
http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/wallstreet/chargingbull/
http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?action=wp&feedId=8905 (police scanner NYC)
Global livestreams for #ALLSept17 #Sept17 #antibanks can be seen here: last I heard it was Spain, Greece, and France going off currently.
http://antibanks.takethesquare.net/
You can also follow #occupybankofEngland on twitter for what is happening in London. I shall return with more after I get some rest. This pic is from an adbuster article back in August.. <3
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France bans public Muslim prayers | The Australian
By Adam Sage, The Times
September 16, 2011
MUSLIMS will be banned from praying outdoors in France from today in the latest move by officials to remove Islam from the public sphere.
The ban, announced by the government yesterday, infuriated French Muslim leaders, one of whom accused President Sarkozy’s government of treating them like cattle.
They say that Muslims, who pray outdoors only because of a lack of space in mosques in France, feel stigmatised.
But Claude Gueant, the Interior Minister, said that the sight of hundreds of people gathering in the streets of Paris and other cities for Friday prayers was “shocking”.
It comes after laws to prohibit pupils from wearing headscarves in schools and women from wearing the niqab, the full Muslim veil, in public.
Mr Gueant described outlawing street prayers as the latest brick in the wall that is shoring up the secular nature of the French state. He said that he had nothing against Islam, but wanted it out of the public eye.
“Street prayers must stop because they hurt the feelings of many of our compatriots who are shocked by the occupation of the public space for a religious practice,” he said.
Police could be asked to arrest Muslims who continue to pray in the street, Mr Gueant warned, but officials will initially try to persuade them to move into a mosque.
Debate has focused on the Goutte d’Or district in northern Paris. Dozens and sometimes hundreds of Muslims pray in the surrounding streets.
Marine Le Pen, the leader of the National Front, was accused of racism when she said that the worship amounted to an “occupation” - a word that for many French is associated with the Nazi invasion during the Second World War.
But the government now appears to be on the same wavelength, with Mr Gueant agreeing that street prayers would “upset” his fellow countrymen.
He said that officials had made available a disused fire station in the Goutte d’Or with room for 2700 people for a rent of €30,000 ($A40,330) a year.
But Muslim leaders said that the site would be open to worshippers only on Fridays.
Mohamed Salah Hamza, imam at a mosque in the Goutte d’Or district, said: “We are not cattle. Our demands have not entirely been satisfied.”
He said that he feared worshippers would continue to pray outside.
“I am in an uncomfortable position and I am afraid there will be a climate of anarchy,” he said.
THE TIMES
Image: French Muslim pray in the street outside an overcrowded mosque in Paris. (Exploring Islam in Paris: Pt 1 | Life and a Lens)
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