Italy plans to ban the burka, virginity tests, forced marriages and opaque funding of mosques.
A new bill promoted by Giorgia Meloni's government aims to regulate practices considered “contrary to human dignity” and to protect national security.
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The Italian government has presented a bill with the aim of’to avoid the formation of parallel societies and ensure that all religious communities operate within the State's legal framework. The initiative is part of a discourse on social cohesion and the defence of public safety.
The idea of Giorgia Meloni is to set concrete limits on certain practices that, under the umbrella of cultural or religious tradition, They can end up generating discrimination or even posing risks to national security. The law has four main pillars: a ban on face veils and virginity tests, a tough stance on forced marriages, and a prohibition on opaque funding of mosques.
Ban on the burka and niqab in public spaces
The text proposes Ban the full-face veil (burka and niqab) in public spaces such as schools, universities, shops or official buildings. The objective is twofold: Avoid security risks i To promote the visibility, freedom and dignity of women. With this prohibition, it would put an end to sSituations like at the Montfalcone Institute, where every day they have to identify girls wearing the niqab. to find out who they are.
The measure It does not affect the hijab., which only covers the hair. The penalties provided for would range from 300 and 3,000 euros for the transgressors.
Forced marriages and virginity tests
The text reinforces the laws that punish forced marriages and introduces religious coercion as an aggravating circumstance. It is also proposed Criminalise virginity tests, which would be prohibited and punished with imprisonment.
The government claims that these practices undermine a person's dignity and constitute acts of cultural imposition.
Control of religious funding
The project establishes new rules for the unofficial religious organisations, like many mosques. These will have to to make their sources of funding public and they will not be able to receive money from countries or entities that the government considers a threat to national security.
The Executive argues that these measures are necessary to prevent the influence of currents. radicals or extremists through external financing.
Complaints from Muslim leaders
Several Muslim leaders and human rights organisations have strongly criticised the bill presented by Giorgia Meloni's government. According to these voices, the measures against the burka and the niqab, The penalisation of forced marriages or the prohibition of virginity tests could generate stigmatisation and limit religious freedom.. They also denounce that control over the financing of mosques represents an interference in the autonomy of Islamic communities and warn that the regulation could end up being discriminatory.
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