SOS Racismo criticises Catalan municipal council burqa bans as "electoralist" http://www.statewatch.org/news/2010/jun/02spain-burga-sos-racismo.htm

The burqa and electoral profitability:Statement from SOS Racismo Catalunya SOS Racismo warns of the danger that false debates such as [the one about] the prohibition of the burqa entail. This is in response to the growing number of measures to ban the burqa that were approved by Catalan town councils, with the latest announced by the Barcelona city council.

From SOS Racismo, as an an organisation for the defence of human rights from an anti-racist standpoint, we wish to report that:This is a false debate that was created for the sole purpose of attaining electoral gain.It does not reflect a real social concern, it has only gained prominence as a concern among the population when politicians, alongside the media, placed it on the agenda of current events. Far from defending the rights of people, what these measures do is to worsen the situation of vulnerability of a sector of the population.They fuel racism and the criminalisation of the migrant population. They also place us in danger of a social rift.