'Burka ban' from 2025

Conspiracy theories?? Switzerland has bilateral agreements with the EU. It has many arrangements with NATO, for instance the Swiss air-force needs to be able to fly over NATO air-space. All this is very open knowledge.

That’s just not what apostrophies generally indicate.

Well, we know from the Ethiopian airlines hijack to Geneva the air force can not enter France or Italy without prior notice.

They’re not apostrophes, they’re inverted commas.

aka “Quotation Marks”

They should also ban hoodies!

Er, why?

A few countries have laws/customs against tattos - still now.

According to google: Iran, Turkey, UAE, Saudi, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar and Japan? (to varying degrees - e.g. in Japan, visible tattoos will get you denied entry in some public places until you cover them up; while in Turkey several fatwas have been issued against tattoos)

Yes but in Japan this has nothing to do with religion but with the Yakuza association. I was very surprised to find out this is the reason, it seemed almost “surreal” to me. Apparently it was a huge problem there for quite a few decades and their government took very drastic measures.
Anyway, I don’t get this “fashion” (just to be clear - I don’t really care about it either, each to their own). I find the Indian Henna tattoos fascinating though - more like a piece of art. But that’s different, I guess. :slight_smile:

Yes but none of these relate to a ban of visitors with tattoos, its more directed towards discouraging their own citizens from getting them. Even in Mecca you will see plenty of people with tattoos doing their pilgrimage. The red line would be offensive tattoos e.g. naked bodies.

There’s France and Austria which are not far from here and have similar laws. This is very interesting opinion from Saudi Arabia government:

The Saudi embassy in Austria has warned its citizens not to wear a full face veil, niqab, in Austria after the government passed a bill banning it, Al-Hayat newspaper reported.

The new law stipulates that as of 1 October 2017, all those who hide their facial features in public will be fined. The embassy called on its citizens to adhere to the law when visiting the country.

The newspaper noted that Austria joined Switzerland and France, which was the first European country to ban the niqab in public, in addition to other religious symbols. Belgium and some Spanish areas have also passed similar laws.

The Muslim World League tweeted last week that Muslims must respect the constitutions, laws and cultures of the countries they live in, and they must request that hijab be treated as a special case within the legal parameters available

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170519-saudi-arabia-warns-against-wearing-niqab-in-austria/

So, the very controversial message of respecting the laws of the country being visited.

I doubt the dress code for women in any of the Gulf countries is as permissive as in the West. And I also haven’t heard of visitors or people who live there complain about it. I might be wrong, of course. When in Rome and all that.