Netherlands plans to ban Muslim face-covering veils next year
AMSTERDAM — The Dutch minority government plans to ban Muslim face veils such as burkas and other forms of clothing that cover the face from next year. The ban would make the Netherlands, where 1 million out of 17 million people are Muslim, the second European Union country to ban the burka after France, and would apply to face-covering veils if they were worn in public. “People should be able to look at each other’s faces and recognize each other when they meet,” the interior affairs ministry said in a …
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