Posted on 06/22/2009 11:25:31 AM PDT by Schnucki
I guess... I have fairly frequent business trips to France and most of the time all you see is the headscarf. Most of my french business colleagues haven’t even seen a muslim woman in a burqa personally (like on the street)... they are just too rare. I’m sure there are some loonies in the country that force women to wear them, but you never see them really.
I think the whole thing is overblown just so that the French government can get another foothold in civil rights and open the door to whatever other social engineering they have planned. What’s next, no visible crucifixes?
Yeah that’s true, though you’d think a modern country would help get them a way out of it instead of running roughshod and banning religious garb... are they going to start cracking down on nuns or something next?
islamofascism shouldn’t be fought by eliminating personal freedom
“islamofascism shouldn’t be fought by eliminating personal freedom”
I don’t think you are going to find a way to integrate severe religious fundamentalism and modern western social and legal values, particularly in the context of islam, which did not form a fundamental part of the western legal system (unlike christianity). Western legal institutions have no way to effectively relate to a religion operating the way fundamentalist islam works.
Additionally, I do not believe the west has the political power/will to stand up to the immigration issues it faces (especially in europe).
On the French Muslim nude beaches, the burqas are sleeveless.
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