Re: Do you Agree with this??
yes i do agree with it.
I think sometimes one must not tolerate when faced with ignorance (assuming those women were not forced to wear Burka). In general, tolerance is completely American conception. And I am not buying it for a minute. but it's totally different conversation.
"I think that the fact that a symbol that has come to represent a facet of Islam has been so publicly maligned is troubling, but what troubles me more is that the burqa has become a symbol of Muslim women in the first place. Even when a Muslim woman makes a "consensual" choice to wear a burqa she is still operating within a male-dominated framework... Read More that constructs her religiosity on her behalf. Her choice to become more religious may be her own, but the ways in which she is taught to become more religious aren't exactly female-friendly. I would like to hear what Muslim women scholars have to say about the burqa - Is a Muslim woman's religiosity really meant to be contingent on her public confinement?
Niqab/Burka is not even close to 'required' in Islam! the only requirement is a modest dress. Where are you getting this "requirements" from some Saudi Men inspired lame fatwas?
Also, women should respect the legacy of the countries they chose to migrate to. France is notorious for keepting relgiion and state separate, it's the tradition of laicite, which does not allow citizens to mix public space with religious symbols. jews and christians also have problems with that in France.
But covering one's face means being ignorant in your own religion + disrispect to the country of your residence. We need to be more flexible, if you wanna cover just wear hijab and you gonna be totally fine.
USA has a very different understanding , history, and practice of democracy than France. So aren't you by forcing exactly "american" understanding of things like "freedom" (which is not an absolute concept, it's a relative thing, defined by many things such as culture political history and nationalism) to the country as France that had bloody 100 war on the bases of the religion? My point is that Muslims need to work with majority of population rather than being dramatic and clinging to the things that are not even a part of the religion.
what we call "freedom" is a constructed concept which means it's never an absolute, it's a relative thing depending on many other thing, not just what you personally feel is right.
e Freedom that we are talking about is always framed by social norms, morals and again, the culture of a particular society.