The bill applies to students and teachers alike, as well as to staff at daycare centres, in ‘teaching situations’. It was backed by a majority in two rounds of voting separated by three days, in accordance with Norway’s parliamentary procedure, media including VG and Bergens Tidende report.
Representatives from the Socialist Left, Red and Green parties voted against the bill.
The Socialist Left voted in favour of applying the ban to teaching staff but not to students.
The anti-immigration Progress Party expressed its delight at the passing of the bill.
“This is very good news. When Progress in 2003 proposed a total ban on the niqab and burqa, we were laughed at. We see now that we have succeeded in bringing the political environment around to our viewpoint,” Åshild Bruun-Gundersen, an MP with the party, told Bergens Tidende. read more
Make them wear uniforms like schools here do – for their ‘safety’.
20 years overdue. And it appears the tide is beginning to turn.
Islam is so utterly repugnant that it’s a tough sell, even to naive pampered females and the very young.
All the West needs is a leader.
Uhh … why not just “ban” filthy fukkin rat-people?
ALL filthy fukkin rat-people – not just filthy fukkin izlamic rat-people – then there’s no “discrimination.”
izlamo delenda est …
Tim
Looks like Norway is waking up to the iceberg it hit. The question now is will the ship stay afloat or will it sink and if it sinks are there enough life boats?
Deport all those worthless illiterate, inbred, welfare dependent, Satan worshiping criminals. Make them go the hell back to where they came from. Make them tear down every single mosque while waiting for their turn to leave.
muzzies are not healthy for children and other living things.
The Liberals are still clinging to the hit single “Mosquerat Love”
by the Captain makes her kneel.