LYON, FRANCE -- France, which regards itself as the cradle of human rights, is moving to impose legal restrictions on Muslim women who wear Afghan-style burqas or other full-face veils.Beyond the fact that these restrictions are inconsistent with any notion of free expression, they are counterproductive: by isolating Mulsims they generate resentment, rather than encourage assimilation.
The restrictions, likely to apply to many public places, come in response to resentment in France and other European countries over the growing visibility of Muslims -- immigrants or locally born -- on a continent with ancient Christian roots. The tensions have long run through European societies but increasingly are coming to the surface as the number of Muslims grows and symbols of their faith, including mosques, are seen as a challenge to European traditions.
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The Burka is a display of isolation from the local population. It is not really a sign of self-expression, but a sign of submission of the female to the male. It is often enforced by the husband, the extended family and the co-religionists.
In France, many not wearing women are routinely harassed in the banlieu, by Muslims.
It is a flag "Not Attack me, I'm Muslim, not a Kafir whore", it was introduced in Islam for this reason from Mohammad.
I have to agree. I don't think the WP's analysis is correct. The burqa is a sign of contempt for European values not "European traditions".
A lot of those who wear it are the parents of immigrants who themselves are more Europeanised than their European-born daughters who now walk around covered head to toe.
It may be self-expression but they don't see it that way, it's a promotion of the Sharia worldview.
I concur with other commentators - the burka is enforced on many women against their will, it is a sign of separation between Muslims &the "rest", and is in no way allowing Muslim women to assimilate with society. They usually show no plans to.
Turkey is going the other way, becoming more religious, but since the 1920s was the leading Muslim country to move out of 'backwardness' and progress. One of the reasons was the secular state.
Just because i'm a classic liberal does not mean I am going to defend the freedoms of those, who wish to impose their will upon me and society.
Miron, you kill me!! Muslims and assimilation. You actually wrote that with a straight face, didn't you?? That's why they want their women to wear burkas, right?? In order to hasten assimilation?? Except that the fascist French won't let them. Oh God, that's funny.
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Jeff, I can't believe the comments I'm reading on this site. It's funny how liberals all want the Burka to be banned because a woman wears it to show her Sharia compliance (God forbid a woman has a non-liberal opinion, oh my!) But they won't bat an eye when they say a woman can choose to have an abortion. I'd rather have women choose Burkas than abortions...
In any case, I guess since some women are compelled to wear the Burka by some Islamic men, they should just all be compelled to NOT wear the Burka by the government. Because, like always, the government knows best...and if it fails, then it just needs more money or power.
How about requiring women who wear burqas to get abortions? Would that be OK?
Hi Miron,
Can you explain what whites get out of all this massive immigration and forced racial assimilation, that is aimed at ALL our countries and ONLY our countries, other than Genocide?
No one is trying to blend out all the blacks in Africa. No one is trying to make blacks a vanishing minority in Africa. No one is trying to blend out the Asians in Asia. No one is trying to blot out the Asians in Asia. They are only doing this where White people just happen to be on the planet. Its genocide.
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
Killing members of the group;
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
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