A controversial Dutch lawmaker has urged the country's parliament to pass a law to fine women who wear Islamic head coverings.
Geert Wilders said women observing the Islamic dress code or Hjiab should be fined 1,000 euros (1,461 dollars) per year.
The leader of the liberal-right Freedom Party PVV made his remarks during a parliamentary debate about the government's budget plans on Wednesday.
"Everyone who wants to wear a headscarf, should first apply for a headscarf license," DPA quoted Wilders as saying.
He added the fine, which he called a "head rags tax," was meant to "demotivate" people to wear Muslim attire.
Wilders had earlier sparked outrage after he made the film Fitna that was considered as sacrilegious by Muslims.
He has also announced his plans to make another film against Islam.
MGH/SS/RE
Anger at Wilders' headscarf tax'
Thursday 17 September 2009
PVV leader Geert Wilders irritated MPs from all parties during Wednesday's debate on the budget by calling for the introduction of a tax on Muslim headscarves, Trouw reports on Thursday.
It is time 'to clean up our streets,' the anti-immigration party leader said. 'This is pollution of public spaces. Let us do something about this symbol of oppression.'
The proceeds of the €1,000 headscarf licence would go to homes for battered women, he said. 'We have had enough of headscarves.'
Liberal democrat leader Alexander Pechtold asked himself if Wilders was serious while GroenLinks leader Femke Halsema said his speech was 'vulgar'.
And Socialist Party leader Agnes Kant asked Wilders if he also planned to tax Jewish skull-caps or headscarves worn by Christian women in the countryside.
© DutchNews.nl
Geert Wilders said women observing the Islamic dress code or Hjiab should be fined 1,000 euros (1,461 dollars) per year.
The leader of the liberal-right Freedom Party PVV made his remarks during a parliamentary debate about the government's budget plans on Wednesday.
"Everyone who wants to wear a headscarf, should first apply for a headscarf license," DPA quoted Wilders as saying.
He added the fine, which he called a "head rags tax," was meant to "demotivate" people to wear Muslim attire.
Wilders had earlier sparked outrage after he made the film Fitna that was considered as sacrilegious by Muslims.
He has also announced his plans to make another film against Islam.
MGH/SS/RE
Anger at Wilders' headscarf tax'
Thursday 17 September 2009
PVV leader Geert Wilders irritated MPs from all parties during Wednesday's debate on the budget by calling for the introduction of a tax on Muslim headscarves, Trouw reports on Thursday.
It is time 'to clean up our streets,' the anti-immigration party leader said. 'This is pollution of public spaces. Let us do something about this symbol of oppression.'
The proceeds of the €1,000 headscarf licence would go to homes for battered women, he said. 'We have had enough of headscarves.'
Liberal democrat leader Alexander Pechtold asked himself if Wilders was serious while GroenLinks leader Femke Halsema said his speech was 'vulgar'.
And Socialist Party leader Agnes Kant asked Wilders if he also planned to tax Jewish skull-caps or headscarves worn by Christian women in the countryside.
© DutchNews.nl
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