Burqa a woman’s choice
0 Comments | Press, The; Christchurch, New Zealand, Jul 28, 2010
In France, the enshrined notion of egalite has resulted in a culture of casual racism and intolerance of difference. Witness the ghetto-like banlieues and suppression of languages other than French.
It is a fascistic response to make laws about what people can wear in public, bar obvious common decency, and is as ridiculous as the reactionary and oppressive practices that the West deplores in some Muslim countries.
Let us be careful not to let our own traditional egalitarian sensibilities become dictated conformity.
I agree there is no place for the full burqa and the chador in the West when so many activities (banking, flight check-in, etc.) depend on face identification, aside from the fact it is not particularly Koranic nor practical (imagine the rigmarole in the doctor’s office). It oppresses women. But this isn’t for the state to decide.
The khimar or hijab head scarf, however, is a harmless expression of modesty, and is no different to a nun’s veil, any hat, or Hilda Ogden’s covering of her hair curlers – we must be careful about the use of terms, and almost certainly should apologise to Islam for the abomination of Sex and the City 2.
Democracy is the right to choose for oneself, and if a woman chooses to enshroud herself in an enveloping sack, that is her business
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