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RAEL'S COMMENT: The true intolerance of French people is revealed here. This is the only big Allies country in which its own police arrested Jews to deliver them to Nazis.This intolerance is well promoted now by government-supporting organizations such as the ADFI and the media fighting religious minorities.
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Source: Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1320392/Retired-teacher-Marlene-faces-jail-ripping-Muslims-veil-case-burka-rage.html
Burka rage' teacher faces jail in France after ripping off Muslim woman's face veil
By Peter Allen
A retired English teacher was facing three years in prison today for ripping off a Muslim's face veil in the world's first known case of 'burka rage'. (Posed by model)
A retired teacher is facing three years in prison for ripping off a Muslim's face veil in the world's first known case of 'burka rage'.
Jeanne Ruby, 63, appeared before the Paris Correctional Court to defend her attack on Shaika al-Suwaidi, 26, who is originally from the United Arab Emirates.
The incident happened in February when both women were out shopping in an upmarket suburb of the French capital, with Ruby claiming: 'For me the wearing of the veil is an aggressive act, there is no burka in my country.'
The case comes at an extremely sensitive time as France has just banned the burka and the niqab following an impassioned public debate more than two years.
Ruby, who is accused of aggravated violence, is said to have 'lost control' when she saw Ms al-Suwaidi choosing furniture in a department store.
'I knew I would crack one day,' said Ruby. 'This whole saga of the burka was really getting to me.'
Speaking in English to her victim, the retired teacher, who taught in Morocco and Saudi Arabia, said: 'I told her to take off the veil she had on her face. I grabbed and pulled it.
'To me wearing a full veil is an attack on being a woman. As a woman, I felt attacked.'
A few minutes later she is said to have started hitting al-Suwaidi, who refused to take her veil off.
'I went over to her and tore her veil,' said the defendant in a police report. 'We came to blows. I was very upset.'
After allegedly slapping Ms al-Suwaidi, Ruby bit her hand before successfully removing the veil, shouting: 'Now I can see your face.'
Security guards had to separate the women, with one describing the fight as being motivated by 'pure burka rage'.
Ms al-Suwaidi suffered cuts and bruises and had to take two days off work. She was so upset that she has now left France and returned to the Emirates, and will not attend today's court case.
Ruby's defence for the attack was that 'we do not wear the burka in my country' but in fact no ban was in place in February.
Even if it was, it would not be up to people to make citizen's arrests, said a legal source involved in the case.
Ruby said: 'I've taught in countries like Morocco and Saudi Arabia and know how these women walk three paces behind their husbands.
'When I saw a burka in a Paris shop I thought it was very provocative. I did not hit or use any violence against this woman. I just wanted to pull her burqa off. I know I shouldn't have got angry, but I lost it.'
Lotfi Ouled Ben Hafsia, for al-Suwaidi, said his client had been living in Paris for three years, but would never return because of the 'racist attack'.
It is now a criminal offence to wear a burka in France, with woman facing fines and even a prison sentence when the law is enforced in six months time.
The case continues.
"Ethics" is simply a last-gasp attempt by deist conservatives and
orthodox dogmatics to keep humanity in ignorance and obscurantism,
through the well tried fermentation of fear, the fear of science and
new technologies.
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history,
it is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
On the contrary, let us embrace Science and the new technologies
unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the
myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease,
death and the sweat of labour.
Rael
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