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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Would there be consequences for the the woman on the left if she decides to bathe without that suit?
If you, or whoever originally came up with this picture, can find the answers to the above two questions on their own, then they'd know where the problem some people are having with this issue, is coming from.
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She wanted to stop women being socialised into oppressive lifestyles by banning the Burqa.
I did suggest that this was akin to banning make-up, cosmetic surgery, and pornography in order to combat western oppression of women... but she just agreed that those things should be banned.
French liberalism and secularism has gone down a strange route.
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Pretty much standard second-wave feminism. Not quite S.C.U.M. nor separatist, as many second wave feminists were, but still fairly mainstream thought for the times and the movement. This sort of thinking was prevalent in feminist circles until the '90's, and still provokes spats in the community. Get second wavers on to the topic of transgenderism and you won't believe the obloquy. It's quite terrifying.
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Interesting to see it still going strong in other parts of the world, apparently...
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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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