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The Swiss Parliament’s lower house backed a face veil ban in 2016, following neighboring European countries such as France, as a curb on radicalism in the wake of terrorist attacks. But to become law, it needed voter approval.
Muslims represent just 5.2 percent of the Swiss population, according federal statistics. But Swiss officials are wary of rising levels of extremism in the country. Swiss police conducted raids against extremists in 2019. Switzerland’s intelligence service estimated that 92 jihadists have traveled from Switzerland to Iraq, Syria, and Somalia since 2013 to join terrorist groups.
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Swiss Vote for Burqa Ban and Its Reaction among Indian Muslims The established theologians of Islam around the world have debunked the untenable theological justifications around the full-face veil of all forms
Swiss voters on Sunday narrowly backed a ban on full face Burqa for Muslim women. An official referendum has shown that in Switzerland a country which is actually one of the first modern-style democracies in the world around 51.21 percent of voters and a majority of federal Switzerland’s cantons are against the wearing of Burqa in public places. Some 1,426,992 voters backed the ban, while 1,359,621 were against, on a 50.8 percent turnout.