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5 EUROPEAN STATES BACK BURKA
BAN - POLL
By James Blitz
March 1 2010
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Cultural divide:
women of different faiths in a street in Blackburn, |
More than half of voters in four other major European
states back a push by
As Mr Sarkozy presses ahead with plans to ban the wearing
of the burka in public places, the FT’s latest Harris poll shows the move is
not just strongly supported in
The poll shows some 70 per cent of respondents in
The strength of feeling in the
“This poll shows that the number of people in
In the
In
Asked if they would support the burka ban if it were
accompanied by a clampdown on wearing all religious icons such as the Christian
crucifix and the Jewish cappel, only 22 per cent of French people said they
supported such a move. In Britain, just 9 per cent of people said they would
back such a move.
Harris also looked at the issue of whether the public
supported the introduction of scanners at airports that xray the full body. In
the aftermath of the failed Christmas day al-Qaeda attack on Detroit, a number
of states have moved to introduce such scanners, a policy that has raised
objections from some groups on privacy grounds.
More than half of people in the US and all but one of the
four European states surveyed were in favour of the introduction of body
scanners. Only in Spain was there a little less enthusiasm for the move, with
46 per cent in favour of the scanners and 23 per cent against.
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