Burqas in France

The Economist reports three views on the tension between Islamic dress for women and France's time-honoured laïcité. Added to www.audiovideo.economist.com in September 2009

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News & Politics

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• Burqas
• France
• women
• laïcité
• Muslims
• Islam
• Nicolas Sarkozy
• freedom of expression
• women's rights
• religious extremism
• jilbab
• niqab
• fundamentalism
• religion
• Mohammed Moussaoui
• integration
• French culture
• secularism
• militant Islam
• banning the burqa

[BadManFifi]

(Verse from the quran)And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what (must ordinarily) appear thereof; that they should draw veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands' fathers, their sons..." [Al-Qur'an 24:31] They wear the burqa to protect themselfs, why is it so hard for some people to accept that?!

[nevanovna]

How do they work looking like that,how do they earn their living ?

[acasuccia]

La France est un pays laïque, ma brave fille reste avec ta bourqua chez toi et abrase ta difference vestimentaire dans la rue de la même façon tu ne te promènera pas en mailliot de bain dans la rue...mais qu'as tu appris à l'école et que transmettra à ta fille (plutôt) à tes petites filles ?- ta religion tu la pratique à la maison pas de prosélysime belphegore...

[lasseplatburk]

This law will not in any way help the women who are truly subjugated. If a woman is forced by her husband or father to wear the burqa, a ban will only make things worse, they won't be like"well, now it's banned, so you don't have to wear it any more", they will rather say "well, it's banned, then you don't leave the house at all". We should deal with that problem before banning the burqa, and I'm all for a ban at least in stores and banks for the same reason as mc-helmets and skimasks are banned

[isometric85]

@hatke159 I am hindu from india...france your a great nation of art and culture please kick out this stupid muslim islamic fanatics and there burqas...france is for romance art lovers not islamic pigs..

[hatke159]

@KOZOG1 Practice what u preach u savage.. First tell ur muslims to tolerate others beliefs . Let them follow the religion of their choice. Then u can fucking preach.

[hatke159]

@KOZOG1 Haha.. Look at the hypocracy. Did u muslims leave the natives of arabian peninsula to live their own lives. No. YOU FUCKING BUTCHERED them if they didnt convert. Now u come to others land , you fucking ask them to allow ur CULT. How the hell did Islam convert everyone with force from arab lands to pakistan.

Read ur own hadiths in which it is explained clearly how ur pedo-prophet killed people of other beliefs. BELIEFS can be tolerated.. but Superstition & oppression cannot be tolerated

[KOZOG1]

@hatke159 how abt you leave ppl ito their way and u to urs instead of sticking your big nose into other ppls beliefs and lifestyles u nobody!

[hatke159]

@KOZOG1 u r on a different dimension altogether. Who the fuck cares if it is politically motivated. all i care is whether it is correct or not. Religion like Islam sucks. It dictates every aspect of life, & it is just superstition to believe in self-proclaimed prophets & Gods. Even i like women to be modest... but living in burqa ur entire life ?? WTF. Those women r just brainwashed to accept it from childhood. Once they try to rationalise , then they will throw it in dustbin.

[KOZOG1]

@hatke159 its called politics just like Hitler had balls we all hate minorities maybe one day u will be on some issue and then the majority who come 4 u will have BALLS 2