German Interior Minister: the possibility of the veil in the country
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said Thursday
that the niqab is not compatible with German society, but most likely it will be difficult blocked at the national level.
He called many of the prominent members of the conservative bloc led by Chancellor Angela Merkel to ban it, saying that it shows a deficit from the merger and debases women may pose security risks.
Live German state of tension after several violent attacks on civilians last month announced the organization Daesh responsibility for two of them.
And it reached more than a million immigrants, most of them Muslims to Germany last year, alarming some Germans that their country is under a deluge of culture and religion of different people.
He said de Maiziere told reporters before a meeting and interior ministers conservative states to discuss security issues in the wake of the attacks, "We are against women who wear the niqab in Germany ... has no place in our country is not consistent with our understanding of the role of women."
Germany and the four million Muslims make up about five percent of the total population.
There are no official statistics on the numbers of women who wear the niqab in Germany, but the head of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany, Ayman Mazyek said that there are no women almost worn in the country.
Study of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees in 2009, and found that more than two-thirds of Muslim women in Germany did not even wear a veil.
De Maiziere said that the face detection and the ability to look in the eyes of others is crucial to ensure social cohesion. He added that women who go to register themselves with the authorities or go to the Civil Registry Office -hat conducted the marriage, for example - the ceremony clearly need to show their faces.
The increased popularity of alternative party for Germany, anti-immigration and who wants to prevent the veils and minarets in the wake of the influx of immigrants. It is expected that the party achieves good results in state elections in Berlin and in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern east of the country in September.
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