Why is the burqa being banned in Europe?

[janab-e-ali]

@burqaposhx

1. It is not a gender thing. It is equally applicable if a man wants to veil himself.

2. Hiding the body in a total all enveloping burqa is one extreme, and walking nude in public is the other extreme. You will see that the public dress code tries to find a middle ground between these two extremes. But the extremists (Burqa-ists, and nudists) both would oppose that and we understand why.

3. Hearing lectures on secularism and free speech from Islamists is a ironic at the very least.

1. And, with certain exceptions as I already mentioned, he should have every right to do so if he wishes.

2. Walking around nude is largely tolerated in most of the Western world, and is in fact a specifically protected right in many parts of Europe. Generally speaking, as long as the person is not engaging in overt sexual activity, you will have a hard time prosecuting them simply for being nude in most jurisdictions.

3. I am not an Islamist, nor have I ever been. As I already pointed out, I have never worn a burqa (or a hejab for that matter) in my life, nor has anyone in my family since my great-grandmother’s generation.

True secularists defend the rights of others to practice their religion as they see fit, even if those religious practices take the form of something that is personally distasteful to them. You’re just a reactionary totalitarian ideologue.