First comes the Burka Ban

Aiman Rauf | June 23, 2009 - 2:41 pm

Tags: ban, burka, France, Islam, Muslim, Nicolas Sarkozy, religious freedom, women

As a Muslim woman living the US, I found the recent comments by President Nicolas Sarkozy to French Lawmakers highly disturbing.  He stated, "The problem of the burka is not a religious problem. This is an issue of a woman's freedom and dignity.