France's uneasy relationship with its esti-mated 5 million Muslims is about to get even more tense. Less than a year after warning that the face-obscuring, full-body Islamic veils worn by some fundamentalist Muslim women "will not be welcome on the territory of the French republic," President Nicolas Sarkozy is moving toward an official ban of the garment he derided as "a sign of subservience." On April 21, Sarkozy ordered his government to present a draft law in May to make wearing total veils that the French call burqas illegal in public places.
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