Posted on 12/03/2009 7:49:06 AM PST by markomalley
Countries from Italy to Sweden are debating the right of women to wear the niqab. Canada is the latest country to enter the fray, with the Muslim Canadian Congress desiring to ban it. Is such a ban possible in the U.S., where its prevalence is evident in certain urban centers, like Philadelphia?
Muslim women's wearing of niqab, the veil covering everything but the eyes, and, by extension, the face-concealing mesh that is combined with a long garment to form the burqa in South Asia, has been introduced into the West as a purported religious obligation, and therefore, is put forward by ideological Islamists as a prospective civil right.
Niqab has become a matter of controversy in almost every Western country, most recently when the French government opened an inquiry into its prohibition – with the support, perhaps counter-intuitive, of that country's leading Muslim figure, Dr. Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris.
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The U.S. has seen a number of bizarre attempts to establish niqab as a right.
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Niqab is not the same as other practices often referred to generally as "veils" or "veiling":
• hijab, or head-covering,
• the abaya, (snip)
• the chador, an Iranian cloak,
• or jilbab, a loose garment covering the body except for the head, face, and hands.
Distinctions between these and various Western styles for women are difficult to make, especially in a civil-liberties environment.
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Niqab as a security problem encourages non-Muslim suspicion of Muslims, since it encourages Muslims toward separatism from their non-Muslim neighbors.
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Niqab is not Islamic. Covering of the face by women is nowhere mentioned in Qur'an, and the opinions of Islamic legal scholars on it are not unanimous.
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That is interesting...
Too bad we can’t have Islam declared a cult rather than a religion. A cult hellbent on the overthrow of the US government has no 1st amendment protection, therefore it can be restricted. OK.... waking up from my dream now.
It should already be illegal in the US. Don’t most states still have Mask Laws on the books since the days of the KKK?
LOL wow, they even have an imitation Barbie on that site! LOL
There is a larger Muslim population in the area I live in now (northern VA) than any place I’ve ever lived before.
What I want to know is what they do to their hair underneath that scarf...those have got to be the biggest buns ever! They make such huge bumps.
If the veil is just a social custom and has nothing to do with any religion, then why are our officials so afraid to ban the things? eh?
Because it IS associated with a cult that calls itself a religion.
I hear you but just try walking into a bank wearing a sky mask and see what happens to you.
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