Ban the Burqa?

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• bigtrick0

  Wrong to ban it. it's a freedom thing. The argument that society has the right to view someone's face, therefore burqas should be banned, carries as much weight as society having the right to view someone's hair, so yarmulkes should be banned.

  There's a lot more history to this particular ban. Due to the Algerian war, there is a lot of... racial distaste in France for Algerians, who are a significant minority there. The ban is sort of a proxy for the undercurrent of racism that France is still suffering through from those days.

  More on the war:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alg…

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  • yarmulkes only cover a portion of the hair and do not exclude identifying a person.Amicus
  • how about a hoodie then?bigtrick
  • most hoodie's still show the face - the singular most identifying part of a person.Amicus
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