SAM Daily Times

A rich Muslim man in France -Rachid Nekkaz- has put aside 1 million Euros and has vowed publicly to use it to pay the fines for all those Muslim women in France who choose to hold on their Burkas and Niqabs.

A property dealer is urging women to engage in "civil disobedience" by continuing to wear the veil if they so desire and had called on supporters to hold a silent prayer in protest at the ban in front of Notre Dame. Rachid Nekkaz, who is a Muslim, said in a webcast he would help pay fines and was putting a property worth around €2m up for sale to fund his campaign.

"The street is the universal home of freedom and nobody should challenge that so long as these women are not impinging on anyone else's freedom," he said. "I am calling on all free women who so wish to wear the veil in the street and engage in civil disobedience," he said