Comments on: France Burqa Ban?

By: Johan

Johan — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:50:09 +0000

If the government bans them, it is taking away social freedoms that every citizen of a country deserves. Women should not be forced to wear the burqa, but it should not be banned either. http://www.mindreign.com/en/mindshare/World-Politics-and-Current-Events/Sarkozy-3a-e2-80-9cMuslim-Burqas-are-Unwelcome-e2-80-9d/sl34045952bp295cpp10pn1.html has some interesting views on the subject….

By: silver fang

silver fang — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:25:13 +0000

I don’t like burqa, but HATE government imposed dress codes.

By: Lalu Hanuman

Lalu Hanuman — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:43:09 +0000

No one should be forced to wear what they do not want to. Everyone should have a choice. I fully agree with that. This is not an issue, however, of France’s concern about women’s rights – rather it is blatant racism in France on this issue! If it were a women’s rights issue – then the Roman Catholic habits worn by nuns in France for centuries, would also feature in the discussion… [See my previous post re the lack of secularism in France]. As would the imposed legal discriminatory requirement that women cannot go topless in the street unlike males. I am all for gender equality. France if it really is concerned about women’s rights, shoud start with the real issue of women being daily depicted as mere sex objects- and close down all of it’s thousands of strip tease etc joints! France’s stance on Turkey joining the EU is yet another example of racist duplicity – the argument put forward is that Turkey is not in Europe, but yet France has colonial possessions all around the world that it has incorporated into French territory – so that paradoxically for example, French Guiana in South America is part of the EU!!

By: Lalu Hanuman

Lalu Hanuman — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:36:19 +0000

Is France a secular society? That’s news to me… if it is, how come Christmas/Easter and Easter Monday/Ascension/Pentecost/Whit Monday/Assumption Day/All Saints Day – are public holidays – [ie 8 out of 13 public holidays]??? To say nothing of Sundays also being holidays… All this anti-burka French rhetoric in the name of secularism, is prompted by racism!
Lalu Hanuman,
The atheist.

By: João Sousa

João Sousa — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:52:08 +0000

Please see this funtastic cartoon on identity. I believe burqa diminish females' rights! Please don't support the discrimination against women.