Good news from France and hopefully (I wont hold ma breathe for it!)) the politicians in Britain can grow a set of balls and ban these 'people' wearing this ridiculous/intimidating garment in public.
An attempt by a British legal team to reverse France's burka ban was today rejected by the European Court of Human Rights.
In a test case which will have widespread implications in other countries, judges said that the measure aimed at stopping women covering their faces in public was entirely justified.
They said that the right of ordinary people to 'live together' was a 'legitimate objective', and that Muslim women wearing face coverings threatened it.
France's parliament passed a burka ban in 2010, leading to protests from Islamic groups who said it was discriminatory.
Today lawyers for an anonymous 24-year-old university graduate told the Strasbourg-based court that the ban was 'degrading' and a 'breach of religious freedom'.
Mrs Pogue on one occasion refused to be served in