Why is the burqa being banned in Europe?

[burqaposhx]

@janab-e-ali

I see you’re from Karachi. I suppose I can understand why, coming from a country that still forces people to sign a statement declaring Mirza Ghulam Ahmed an “impostor-nabi” before giving them a passport, you might have some issues understanding how allowing the government to dictate how people interpret religious doctrine in their personal lives is both a violation of personal civil liberties and fundamentally defies the concept of separation of church and state.

Why don’t you worry about establishing a functional secular democracy in your own country, rather than attempting to defend (through your own twisted logic) the desecration of secular values and civil liberties in the West through totalitarian legislation.

Good points in your posts.

1. I think it is utterly inhuman (ready Nazism) to force people to declare their religion on the passport. Pakistan is for everyone, Muslims or non-Muslims. We must ditch the religion field in the passport along with the primitive tribal implementation of Hadood ordinance.

2. You forgot one thing in your post when you say "…allowing the government to dictate how people interpret religious doctrine in their personal lives ".

We are not talking about “personal” lives in this thread. We are talking about “Public” expression. That is hiding your face while in “PUBLIC”. Got it?

if you want to wear a full niqab in your mosque parties. That’s OK. But when you come out in public, people should be able to see your face.

Thus the governments can and do dictate “public” behaviors. You can always argue that certain behavior is not public, but the concept that government should control the public behavior is A-OK.

Hope you understand it better now.