Fear Factor: Europe bans the burqa | openDemocracy Lucid essay on the rationale behind this absurd legislation - "Europe’s systemic fears involve nothing less than the extent of her territorial and cultural boundaries. To put it bluntly, an aged Europe feels under threat from a world she once dominated, but which she never properly understood. It is this post-colonial world that is coming back to haunt her. And it is wearing a burqa."
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