Liberté, égalité, fraternité?

[yami_no_hoshi]

French Senate bans burka
Law to take effect in 6 months

The Associated Press

The French Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday for a bill banning the burka-style Islamic veil everywhere from post offices to streets, a move that affects only a tiny minority of the country's Muslim women but has significant symbolic repercussions.
The Senate voted

Comments

[hotcoffeems]

America *is* bad when it comes to this kind of thing. France, however, is also bad. The reasoning/history behind it is slightly different, but it boils down to the same thing. Both are bad; I don't feel particularly lucky to be a Muslim living in the US in terms of anti-Islamic bigotry.

[hotcoffeems]

...Oh, I dunno...any place with a modicum of religious tolerance for anything other than Christianity? You know, where just *maybe* a large swath of those who guide public opinion (and some of whom are in policy-making positions) don't marginalize and near-criminalize anyone Muslim?

I'd think after all the hate for the NYC Islamic Cultural Center, the Qur'an burnings, the religious profiling, the assaults...this would be damn obvious.

What exactly are you trying to say? "At least we're not France"? That's damning with faint praise, to put it mildly.

[hotcoffeems]

You're either extremely obtuse (possibly stupid as hell) or trolling. Neither's worth further time.

[umi_mikazuki]

My money's on trolling. They're not even a funny troll. :(

[roseofjuly]

He's trolling; this is a pattern for this poster

[rex_dart]

You sound like a lot of people I know who've never left the US, except maybe to go sit on a beach full of Americans in Cancun.

[omgangiepants]

How about any country that doesn't have people organizing mass burnings of the Koran? For fuck's sake.

[kencf0618]

Presumably the reasoning behind the sole dissenting vote is closely reasoned indeed... I'll see if I can look it up. The xenophobia on either side of the water is appalling however tweaked.

[poetic_pixie_13]

America's hardly better. Hence the protests of Park 51, a taxi driver being stabbed for being Muslim, a Muslim-owned store being burned with 9/11 spray-painted all over it, etc. Same shit, different country.

[poetic_pixie_13]

Neither, both fail hard.

[umi_mikazuki]

Saying that one country or religion is better than another is one of the problems with today's world. Good and bad, and right and wrong, are subjective terms.

[omgangiepants]

lmfao god DAMN