The French Senate on 14 Sept 2010 passed a Bill banning the burqa-style Islamic veil on public streets and other places with an overwhelming majority. Islamic veil though effects less than 2000 women was seen as a symbolic defence of French values. The French Senate voted 246 to 1 in favour the bill the ban became a law in France. The Bill was passed in July 2010 in the Lower House of France- the National Assembly. It only remains for the France’s constitutional watchdog to pass the bill before the ban becomes a law in France. The proponents of the ban made effective by the law would preserve the nation’s values, including its secular foundations and a notion of fraternity that is contrary to those who hide their faces.
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