Ban the Burqa?
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- kgvs720
Looks fine to me.
- drinking coffee must be hell.Amicus
- I remember seeing this video a long time ago and it never said the country where it was filmed, propropropaganda...georgesIII
- airey0
widen it further. i'm white and a kiwi. i live in australia. once my accent changed people stopped making fun of me. it's my fucking right to be vilified for being an immigrant yet because i look the same i'm ignored. treated equal. fuckers.
- Well, if it makes you feel better, I never would have guessed you were a kiwiukit
- ukit0
I agree - but don't you think it's hypocritical to go after France and not other countries that restrict peoples' freedom - Islamic countries in many cases being some of the worst.
When you bring this up, people will say, well, it's Saudi Arabia or Iran's culture to treat people this way, and I'm largely sympathetic to that. But it seems inconsistent to say that they can impose their culture on the society and France can't - regardless of the motivation.
- they don't call themselves a coalition of shining white hatted cowboys saving the world though do they.airey
- The only reason you even cite iran is because, the media have been portraying them as the evilest society in the worldgeorgesIII
- the west proffers some high moral ideal and yet here we are failing it.airey
- yet most of the "arabs" that bomb your twin towers are from saudi arabia but it is still your biggest oil partner theregeorgesIII
- you see the hypocrisy?georgesIII
- No, and you avoided the question, because there are restrictions on peoples' lives in those societies.ukit
- georgesIII0
and they are wearing it for their personal religious faith,
why should we only target the muslim faith while ignoring the dozen other faith were women wear head scarfs,oooh I forgot, they're supposed to be terrorist, right?
- georgesIII0
I'm saying this law is goddam hypocrital,
that's what I'm saying,Sarkozi is losing votes as hell and decided to ride the extreme right band wagon because of it,
If you can still go on and not realize that they only reason we're even hearing about it now, is that failing politician want to use the publics fear of islamofascist to gain more votes, then you must be living in a hole somewhere in USA (no offense of course)
muslim/catholic/jew/orthodox women have been wearing different types of headscarf for decades (if not centuries) now,
nobody cared until the big bad brow terrorist fear was instilled into us.
- ukit0
Is the law banning headscarves or just the part covering the face? If it's the second one, these examples kind of disprove your point georges.
- cannonball19780
How about we even pull this back further and realize how simple minded it is perpetuating the discourse that lumps terrorists into being only muslim.
There are all kinds of terrorists. National Socialist Terrorists, Eco Terrorists, Narco Terrorists etc.
Whenever I hear arguments like this it reeks of people trying to defend their right to be suspicious and hateful of a group. Yes. You have that right. You also have the right to bear arms. Do you really want to live in that mindset your whole life though?
For the record I'm half-Afghan.
- but canon, they are brown,
why don't you get it,
repeat after me, all brow peeps are terroristgeorgesIII - Halfghan!neue75_bold
- but canon, they are brown,
- georgesIII0
- upi can't see her face, because I can, and she's having second thoughts. :)Amicus
- drgz0
Muslim women do not choose to cover themselves by own will (no healthy, self-respecting woman would)
In Burqa-wearing muslim communities women decide nothing
It's an ancient religious rudiment forced on people by Imams
- Did you poll a cross-section of muslim women for this or were you just told this and assumed it sounded righteouscannonball1978
- Any leader of a mosque or any person in Islamic leadership position will tell you that directlydrgz
- Who btw are all mendrgz
- yeah, but what did the women you asked say?airey
- Is exactly my point: they have no say on thisdrgz
- airey0
well if you're banning those godforsaken bells i'll lend a hand. i'm tired of being woken up early after a late saturday night sacrificing virgins in pentagrams and such.
- no fuck shit,
at least they stop at 11 then start again at 6'15georgesIII
- no fuck shit,
- georgesIII0
^
You perfectly summed up what I was going to write Airey,
This whole ban the burka thing has no real basis in reality but is based of fear,
the fear that make you win votes.