The Belgian Chamber of Representatives today voted to accept a Burqah ban in public by a 147-1 margin. The lone opposer was Eva Brems (Groen!), former leader of Amnesty International Flanders. Meyrem Almaci (Groen!) and Zoe Genot (Ecolo) abstained. A very bleak day for civil rights in Belgium.
How come that even the Belgian Socialists approved of a Burqa ban? As far as I remember, in France the Socialists were opposed to the ban, and the same holds for Swiss cantonal parliaments where it's usually the right parties which are in favour of such a ban and where the left parties are against it.
