No, Portugal is not banning all Islamic practices

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No, Portugal is not banning all Islamic practices  Viral claims online appear to over-extend a recently approved law that will ban face veils in public in Portugal.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/11/14/no-portugal-is-not-banning-all-islamic-practices  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00No, Portugal is not banning all Islamic practices.

00:07Viral claims on social media

00:09allege that Portugal is banning all Islamic laws and practices

00:13and that failing to comply will result in a €4,000 fine.

00:17This post on X has been seen more than 800,000 times

00:21and has been shared and liked thousands of times too

00:24and alleges that more and more EU countries will follow suit.

00:27It attaches a video which also makes the same claims,

00:30noting that France, Italy, Sweden, Austria and Belgium

00:34are also going to implement the same measures.

00:37However, the claim that Portugal and other countries

00:39are banning all Islamic practices is wrong

00:42and appears to be an exaggeration of a recent bill

00:45to ban the wearing of face veils in public places.

00:48In mid-October, the Portuguese parliament approved a bill

00:51banning face veils worn for gender or religious reasons in public

00:55in a move seen as targeting the face coverings worn by some Muslim women.

00:59It was proposed by the far-right Jäger party

01:02and received support from the ruling centre-right PSD,

01:05the Liberal Initiative and the centre-right CDSPP.

01:08Anyone flouting the new law could face fines of between €200 and €4,000

01:14depending on the severity of the case.

01:16So the online claims clearly have some parallels to the face veils ban,

01:20but they've exaggerated and misconstrued the truth.

01:23The law will now be debated in a parliamentary committee

01:26where it may be amended before returning to the plenary for a final vote.

01:31President Marcelo Rebelo de Souza still needs to approve the law,

01:35otherwise he could veto it or send it to the constitutional court for review.

01:39Once fully approved, Portugal will join the likes of Austria, France, Belgium, Denmark and others

01:45in the group of European countries which have banned the burqa.

01:49But again, this doesn't mean that these countries have banned the practice of Islam.

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