Belgian parliament votes to ban wearing of veil

2010/04/29 15:17:42 @Reuters: World News

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The Belgian lower house of parliament on Thursday approved a bill to ban wearing the full Islamic face veil in public, a move that could make Belgium the first European country to make the practice a criminal offence. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=t9eSogN8pA4:BtR3_JJpAV4:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=t9eSogN8pA4:BtR3_JJpAV4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=t9eSogN8pA4:BtR3_JJpAV4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=t9eSogN8pA4:BtR3_JJpAV4:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=t9eSogN8pA4:BtR3_JJpAV4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/t9eSogN8pA4" height="1" width="1"/
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