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France’s Veil Ban: Burqas, Bikinis and BS
The new French law against full-face veils is almost as dangerous as it is absurd—and the cops charged with enforcing it know it. Christopher Dickey on the “masquerade.”
Christopher Dickey
World News Editor
Published
Apr. 12 2011
11:12AM EDT
Kenza Drider, a French Muslim of North African descent, wears a niqab outside the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris April 11, 2011. (Gonzalo Fuentes, Reuters / Landov)
Christopher Dickey
World News Editor
christopher.dickey@thedailybeast.com
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