I sincerely hope this becomes a forceful, international trend! It’d be great to see that despicable ‘tradition’ become of thing of the past…

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I’ve always thought that there should not be state laws against what women can wear in public, just as there should not be state laws against religious beliefs. Like Sam, I’ve thought that conversational intolerance was the way to go.

Hitch has me thinking twice though…

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Reading some of the comments on the original article really has me scratching my head.  On the one hand, I think, “Yes, women should have the “freedom” to wear what they want, including a burqa.”  On the other hand, I have to wonder:  If a woman and her menfolk want her to dress as if they live in a repressive Muslim state, why didn’t just stay in their repressive Muslim state instead of moving to France?  When in Rome, and all that…

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Women should wear whatever they want but covering the entire body including face is a barbaric requirement in many Muslim countries .Any civilised Western country should ban this discriminatory and
highly unhealthy habit. Women in these restricting clotes can not participate in sports and look like walking black tents.This apparel makeds them sick due to the lack of the sunshine exposure and symbolizes their inferiority and slave like relation towards men.
European UNion and US shouls ban this barabric habit invented in backward Arab lands.

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The simplest thing to say about the burqa is that only the Muslim women wear it.  Women wear “black” burqas, but you do not ever see Muslim men wearing a “white” burqa.  (Or any colored burqa-like garb, for that matter.)

In addition, the burqa rule, as I understand it, must be strictly obeyed by Muslim women.

Thus, we have a ruleset that applies to women only, and not to men of that same faith.  This makes muslim women not equal to muslim men.  And, because muslim men do not have to wear a male-burqa, they are not as restricted as muslim women.  (Less restrictions can be stated mathematically as muslim men are greater than muslim women.)

As simple as a mathematical proof, we can see that in the eyes of Islam, muslim men are valued more than muslim women.

I hope that France does outlaw it.

-MM

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And this is not an original point, but one many seem to miss:
In a context such as this, we cannot truly know whether anybody claiming they want to wear the burqa is being honest with us or with themselves. When something is so tied to one’s religion, and so heavily and brutally enforced, it’s easy to convince yourself of many things…

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Nicely done. A fine example of resisting religion where it’s controversial, as contrasted with just bagging on Televangelists or whatever. Let’s hope the French stand for their most noble traditions.

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I think the wearing of masks is already proscribed in certain places within most Western societies; those laws ought to apply to the burqa as well. Outright banning, I feel, is antithetical to what we most value: freedom.

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I have not read the law directly.  If it says “you can’t cover your face, and the burqa is no exception”, then Hitchens has a point.

But if the burqa is banned anywhere by name, where it is legal to wear a raccoon mask, then it’s that “liberal fascism” stuff.

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Put it this way. If you could not leave your house without wearing a burqa because I said so, what would you do?

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Those indoctrinated souls are so psychologically damaged that they perceive wearing scarf or bur-qua as their individual freedom.

In my opinion these women are not really conscious of the fact that they just trying to keep the peace within their family or social surrounding.

Left wingers in Europe think that respecting that freedom is about respect. While it actually is facilitative to the religious suppression of mainly men within Islam.

A scary negative spiral that they are in.

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Let’s pretend for a moment, and I don’t claim this to be the fact, that women who wear the facial covering are pleased to do it. Let’s assume they are not, even subconsciously, wearing it out of fear of reprisal from the menfolk.

In this case one couldn’t make the case that the law was about the emancipation of female Muslims and much of the air and heat is taken out of the argument.

I agree with much of Hitchens stuff but I think in this case using general laws to apply to the rescue of one group of adults from one specific act against them is, on balance, counterproductive. We have to be careful to enact laws that globally ban a specific form of dress.

Apart from the likelyhood there would be unintended consequences, I don’t think it is the correct way to address the general supression of Muslim women by their men.

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the women really deserves as much respect as we have for ourselves… there should be equality on women and men…

tags: equality

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