“Oppression mechanism”. Denmark wants to ban the Integral Islamic Veil (and already do so on the street)

Use of “Niqab” divides the Danish government-and to the right, there are those who refuse the prohibition because it consider it non-democratic.

The Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen defended the ban on the use of “niqab” – full veil that covers the face except the eyes – as well as wanting to discourage prayer rooms in schools and universities.

“God must give in the place. We have the right to be believers and to practice our religion, but Democracy has priority“The Danish government chief told the Danish news agency Ritzau and quoted by France-Presse (AFP).

Mette Frederiksen Consider that exists “um Muslim social control”, Which leads to a“ oppression of women ”in educational institutions in Denmark, due to gaps in legislation.

In August 2018, a law that prohibits the face in the Denmark in the Denmark came into force in the public space. Anyone who wears a piece of clothing that covers the face – like the full veil – risks a fine.

This law is criticized by discriminatory character in relation to a religious group, as well as the violation of freedom of worship and the free choice of women.

The Prime Minister intends to extend this ban on educational institutions, specified the Ritzau agency. Mette Frederiksen also wishes eliminate the prayer rooms of these places, without prohibiting them formally.

The head of the government would like the ministers of education and higher education, Mattias Tesfaye and Christina Egelund, respectively, “clearly expressed to universities that there should be no prayer rooms in the institutions,” and who together found a solution, he added to the news agency.

“We don’t want them, because are used as oppression mechanisms Against the girls and potentially also against the boys, ”insisted Mette Frederiksen.

These statements arise at a time when the debate on this theme is also lit in France, another country of the European Union: former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal proposed, on May 20, prohibition of the use of the veil in the public space for children under 15stating that this impairs the equality between men and women and the protection of children.

This proposal was strongly criticized from the left, but also by the center and the right, which consider it inapplicable or unconstitutional.