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Posted on 10/22/2014 6:41:37 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Since 2011, France has enforced a so-called “burka ban” on Muslims covering their faces in public, making it the first European country to take such measures against publicly-demonstrated Islamic dress codes. About five million Muslims live in France.
Offenders in and around Paris usually receive a fine, but on Oct. 3, the ban reached a new level of enforcement, as a Muslim woman was kicked out of the Bastille Opera house after refusing to uncover her face. Performers of La Traviata didn’t notice the woman until the second act, at which point they refused to continue performing until she was removed, reports Mad World. The show’s director, Jean-Philippe Thiellay, said that the security guard first informed the woman of the ban and then asked her to either uncover her face or leave. This was the first known instance of a burka-ban offender being kicked out of an artistic venue.
After news of this incident, France’s Ministry of Culture has vowed to institute a new set of rules to make sure that the ban will be strictly enforced in public institutions, like museums and theaters.
It’s interesting that France has made such a strong statement against this public display of religious orientation. The U.S. has not implemented a similar ban because of First Amendment considerations, even in the face of escalating threats from radical Islamists. But there’s nothing that guarantees anyone the right to practice his religion on someone else’s property, so maybe following France’s lead on this one in the private sector is a better way to go than walking on politically correct eggshells. We Americans seem seem to be experts at that when it comes to all things Islam.
Charles De Gaulle was a Chauvanist’s Chauvanist. An elitest, and didn’t care who knew it. Same with Francois Mitterrand.
If you go back to it’s beginnings (610 AD), you get the impression that Muhammad was a nutcase and psychotic. It’s a system which tried to ID itself as a religion, but it’s whatever the “user” intends it to be. Manipulation is the focus though....without it...the religion falls apart.
Back then blacks were slaves in the South and had no choice but to fight with their owners. If their owners told them to fight for the Confederacy do you really think saying no would be an option to a slave?
Your statement is false.
Blacks who fought for the South were given their freedom in return for them volunteering.
None of them fought as slaves, and none of them were forced to fight.
It may be hard for some people to grasp, but it was THEIR culture, too. And there were lots of black slave OWNERS.
So I guess I am about the only one here who doesn’t like this law?
It’s none of the government’s damn business what a free person chooses to wear.
Your statement is false.
Blacks who fought for the South were given their freedom in return for them volunteering.
None of them fought as slaves, and none of them were forced to fight.
It may be hard for some people to grasp, but it was THEIR culture, too. And there were lots of black slave OWNERS.
Yes there was black slave owners but in all the South? No. Maybe certain parts of Louisiana where free black persons could afford it.
If they were given freedom in exchange for fighting for the Confederacy that still doesn’t take away my point blacks were slaves and if their owner told them to fight with him that’s what they did. And as slaves they were uneducated and unaware what their owners fought for.
Slave owners had absolute power over their human property.
Bravo!
Felt like it.
I wish people would stop saying the word burkha. Most Muslim women do not wear the Taliban garment and I’ve never seen one in the US. I’ve never seen one in Saudi. Full face veil and hajib yes, but a burkha outside of Taliban controlled Afghanistan? Nope.
Get a life.
Me too.
And i get just as furious when i see one of those damm Che T-Shirts.
In this country all the performers would wear burkhas at the next performance.
Will Hollywood follow their example or continue to follow the Ben Afflecks among them to obamatopia, stepping around the inconvenient and senseless acts of workplace violence along the way?
Exactly. Their “reliqious” belief is that nobody but Muslims have any riqhts whatsoever, and their mission in life is to do whatever it takes to make it so that the qovernment under which they live enforces that worldview. The “reliqion” is actually an enemy of everythinq the US Constitution stands for.
O no they don't. There are entire suburban towns around Paris where even the cops fear to go. Marseilles (among other towns) is now an insanitary Muslim hellhole in many sections. Muslims beat Jews in the streets and threaten the kids in Jewish schools. Muslims riot and torch cars whenever they feel like it. Gang rapes. The whole panoply of Muslim activity can make France very uncivilized at times.
O yeah. Stay off the Paris subway.
In KSA, it's called an "abbaya," and it is mandatory in public. An exception was made for American women in uniform during Desert Storm, but they were warned "not to push their luck."
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