Instead of pushing women to abandon it, those who wear the veil may simply stay at home.

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They also argue the veil presents a security risk, since it hides the wearer's face.

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"The draft resolution is nothing more than a document of political conspiracy of hostile forces, to put the veil of a unanimous message of the international community on the U.S.-led human rights campaign against the DPRK in a bid to deny and obliterate the state and social system of the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea,"

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For example, the bride may wear a long white dress and have a white veil over her face.

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In her own room she pulled at the dark veil that covered her face.

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They claim they do not want to politicize the face veil, but most French agree this has already been done.

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Earlier this month Jean-Francois Cope, parliamentary floor leader of Mr.Sarkozy's ruling UMP party, introduced draft legislation to ban the face-veil.

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On Tuesday, a parliamentary commission presented a report on the face veil, after months of studying the issue.

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This is not the first time the Muslim veil has sparked controversy in France.

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Oloria,20,has been wearing the niqab, or face-covering veil, for the past three years.

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Only a small percentage of Muslim women here wear the face veil.

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Jaballah warns that banning the face veil may have a perverse effect.

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The debate comes amid controversy over banning minarets in neighboring Switzerland and as the French government considers whether to ban Muslim women from wearing a face-covering veil in public.

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Polls show the majority of French back a face-veil ban.

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It was kicked off last June by President Nicolas Sarkozy, who announced in a major speech that the face veil, which he called a burqa, was against French values and not welcome in France.

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