What's a burqa, and does it have a place in our place? That's the question that a number of European societies have been pondering about for some time. In Germany for example, some province ministers of the interior have decided to ban the controversial headgear as part of the measures to counter Islamic radicalization. Other countries already have
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/24/french-police-make-woman-remove-burkini-on-nice-beach
'...she was not wearing “an outfit respecting good morals and secularism”.' Pretty vague I suppose. I wonder when it is going to be challenged in a higher court? Well they better start with the nuns too. And the priests. Or but because they are Christian or Jewish they have good morals?
Sorry, even though I'm not Islamic, and I don't like the way Islam treats folk, especially women, and I loathe Islam's anti-gay stance too: I think this is racist bigotry enshrined in law.
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France's burqa ban upheld by human rights court: European judges declare that preservation of a certain idea of 'living together' was legitimate aim of French authorities.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/01/france-burqa-ban-upheld-human-rights-court
French Muslim student banned from school for wearing long black skirt: Headteacher of school in north-east France felt the long skirt ‘conspicuously’ showed religious affiliation, flouting rules of secularity
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/28/french-muslim-student-banned-from-school-for-wearing-long-skirt
Burka rage as female lawyer rips veil off Muslim woman in French clothes shopReply
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But I imagine we all think that way some of the time.
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My support for secularism has always been on the basis that it increases religious freedom, which I think is a good thing. This attitude tends to back the American model.
However, the history of French secularism has it's origins in state conflicts with the Roman Catholic Church and thus is more hostile towards religion.
French secularism is conservative (about preserving traditional values), American secularism is liberal (about increasing freedom).
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