Saint Olave's Law Society Journal ; Issue 01 (Autumn 2013) | Page 14

Saint
 Olave’s
 Law
 Society
 Journal

  DISCRIMINATION
 IN
 EUROPEAN
 LAW;
  10TH
 CENTURY
 AND
 NOW

BUMADE
 AGBAJE

expressing
 their
 views
 at
 school
  but
 Muslims
 cannot
 go
 anywhere.
 The
  French
 Commission
 argued
 that
 it
 was
 a
  safety
 issue
 that
 they
 were
 stopping
  women
 from
 being
 pressurised
 into
  doing
 something
 they
 don’t
 believe
 in
 by
  the
 men
 in
 their
 lives
 and
 that
 women
  needed
 to
 have
 their
 faces
 on
 show
 for
  identification
 purposes.
 If
 a
 Muslim
  woman’s
 child
 ran
 outside
 the
 house,
  would
 it
 not
 be
 a
 greater
 safety
 issue
 for
  her
 to
 take
 the
 time
 to
 remove
 her
 veil
  before
 she
 does?
 That
 extra
 time
 could
  have
 terrible
 implications
 for
 the
  child.
 Firstly
 the
 French
 Commission
  only
 questioned
 one
 Muslim
 woman
 out
  of
 the
 whole
 population
 and
 she
 was
  required
 to
 remove
 her
 veil.
 The
  evidence
 shows
 that
 many
 women
 wear
  the
 veils
 as
 a
 sign
 of
 devotion
 to
 their
  faith,
 and
 that
 many
 of
 their
 husbands
  don’t
 like
 them
 wearing
 the
 veil
 but
 they
  do
 anyway.
 Additionally,
 if
 the
 state
  really
 believed
 men
 were
 the
 ones
  pressuring
 women
 into
 the
 full
 facial
  veil,
 should
 they
 not
 be
 the
 ones
  persecuted
 instead
 of
 the
 women?

  Secondly
 the
 state
 did
 not
 follow
 the
  evidence
 they
 were
 given
 by
 this
  woman,
 but
 admitted
 that
 they
  breached
 the
 women's
 human
  rights;
 however,
 they
 then
 proceeded
 to
  make
 a
 ruling
 just
 because
 some
 citizens
  (including
 those
 in
 power)
 did
 not
 like
  seeing
 women
 with
 the
 full
 facial
 veil.
 In
  a
 recent
 case
 in
 the
 UK
 involving
 a
 21
  year
 old
 from
 Hackney
 a
 judge
 refused
  to
 let
 a
 Muslim
 defendant
 wear
 a
 full-­? length
 burqa
 in
 court.
 The
 judge
 said
 it
  would
 be
 possible
 for
 another
 person
 to
  be
 her.
 If
 she
 refused
 to
 remove
 her
  burqa
 she
 could
 not
 stand
 trial.
 This
  similarly
 to
 the
 French
 and
 Belgian
 case
  is
 where
 the
 law
 and
 politics
 ended
 up
  breaching
 these
 women’s
 rights.
 Why
  should
 a
 woman
 be
 forced
 to
 go
 back
 on
  such
 a
 personal
 decision
 she
 made
  simply
 to
 stand
 trial?
 The
 judge
 put
 the

In
 the
 10th
 century
 there
 were
 many
  stems
 of
 discrimination,
 the
 most
  common
 ones
 against
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