Germany’s Chancellor Merkel calls for banning Muslim full-face veil

‘German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for banning of the burqa “wherever it is legally possible,” while stressing that German law “takes precedence” over Sharia.
“The full-face veil must be banned wherever it is legally possible,” said Merkel to delegates at the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) congress held in Essen on Tuesday.
While launching her bid for another term as CDU leader, Merkel referred to “security and order, justice and law” as the pillars of the CDU’s politics.
She also stressed that “Germans who always lived here as well as those who just arrived” should obey the law.’
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