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Turin
official asks school board to ban burqa-wearing mothers
Thursday November 25, 2010 03:54:46 PM,
AKI
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Rome:
A government official in industrial northern Italian city of Turin
has asked the local school board to stop fully-veiled women from
picking up their children at school because it makes it difficult
to identify them as the students' true parents.
The request by Maurizio Marrone - a member of Prime Minister
Silvio Berlusconi's conservative People of Liberty party - was
prompted after Marrone and other mothers had seen some women
dressed in full burqas picking up their children from an
elementary school in Turin's Barriera di Milano working class
neighbourhood.
"Some mothers with children enrolled in the Albert Sabin
elementary school in Turin have seen Islamic women wearing the
full burqa picking up their children, and I have seen this as
well," Marrone said, adding that the burqa made it impossible for
teachers to "verify the identity" of those picking up minors.
Marrone went on to call the wearing of the burqa, the traditional
dress of fundamentalist Islamic women, "damaging to the dignity of
women".
Marrone also claims the burqa "slows down the process of
integration" for immigrants.
In September this year, two separate bills were presented in the
upper and lower chambers of the Italian parliament which aim to
end the wearing of face-covering burqa's in Italy.
Also in September, France voted to ban the burqa. Women there can
be fined or jailed if covering their faces in public.
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