Re: Burqa Bannings
Exactly. This banning nonsense has to stop! You cannot pretend to worry about extremism when you yourself hop from one extreme to another.
For now, people should just focus on combating the ideologies and individuals who are hellbent on making burqa a farz. In fact when it comes to Pakistan, in most cases, burqa is not adopted because of religious reasons, it’s strictly done out of cultural pressure. I’d go as far as saying that many Pakhtoon women do burqa simply because the men in their family said so. It*'s *a symbol of *their tribal honour, respect and pride. *Now how do you get rid of this mentality, I really don’t know. But I’d definitely stick with better education, infrastructure and effective laws as an only peaceful and long term solution.
Btw, any sympathies for women who wear burqa for personal safety and security reasons?