Bill Maher & Salman Rushdie - It's Right to Ban the Burqa

Bill Maher & Salman Rushdie in Agreement - It's Right to Ban the Burqa.

Broadcast on: May 7, 2010.

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[poppers112233]

@Byron10301 Nope, there are other Muslims like him. Take me for example. I find the burqa to be idiotic and demeaning to women, it should have been done away with years ago. Everyone has to understand that just because I'm a Muslim, it doesn't mean I profusely pray 10 times a day while humping camels and beheading women in between the hourly sandstorms that postpone my suicide bombings. I eat bacon, I LOVE South Park, and no Muslim woman I know wears the burqa. Its all about perspective.

[shubroto81]

sALAMN RUSHDIE IS A TRUE WARRIOR.

[poppers112233]

@TheBlackrainbows88 I can't tell if you're serious or if you're a troll. I laugh at people like you who interpret the Quran word for word. If you were genuinely paying attention, you'd realize that the whole point of Islam (and the reason there's nothing like a Rabbi or Priest) is to allow Muslims to establish their own unique and independent relationship with God without any organizational pressure to make them compromise their thoughts. You CLEARLY don't get it. So fuck you, I AM A MUSLIM.

[TheBlackrainbows88]

@poppers112233 shut the fuck up and dont call yourself Muslim...you fuckin disgraceful prick.

[1mdmorgan]

@Ragnarockalypse Somebody who chooses to wear something isn't a crime in and of itself-the action of wearing something alone doesn't harm anyone. They don't violate anybody else's rights or hurt anyone just by wearing something. Besides, the chances are that criminals who do disguise themselves won't care about the law anyway, so by banning the burqa the only people you stop are the non-violent ones.

[Ragnarockalypse]

@1mdmorgan We don't force Sikhs not to wear turbans because the turban is not a disguise. What I'm saying is allowing people to mask themselves at any given time makes it much easier to commit crime and get away with it. It indirectly causes harm to society.

I would not call making yourself completely anonymous a form of expression. What if my chosen form of expression is murder and rape? Should that be allowed, because of your "law"?

[1mdmorgan]

@Ragnarockalypse Why don't we just force Sikhs not to wear turbans? The crime in this case is a crime agaisnt the right to freely express yourself. These people aren't defaming or threatening anyone, these are clothes. Expression is the fundamental law which unleashes intolerance and force if violated. Besdies, Saying masks allow criminals to commit crime is like saying the presence of weed allows people to get high- crime is action of people, not the usage of things.

[Ragnarockalypse]

@1mdmorgan Let's say you work at the reception of a bank. Would you tolerate that a person who is completely anonymous because of his/her clothing enters?

If people can mask themselves at any given time it makes it much easier for wanted criminals to hide and avoid arrest. By inhibiting the freedom to cover your face, you improve the security of society, strengthening the freedom from crime.

Politics is all about balancing freedom.

[1mdmorgan]

Bill Maher-I lost any respect I might have had for him when he disrespected Ralph Nader on his show. I'm sorry but the freedom to wear what you choose is an indispensible component of the right o express yourself freely. 'You've got to have a face in the west'- intolerance in its most naked form. Our civil rights movement may as well be nullified if you force peoiple to dress (or not to dress) a certain way

[CBfrmcardiff]

@CBfrmcardiff... non-Muslims, of the choice to identify yourself to the world at large as simply 'an anonymous Muslim woman', rather than as an individual, and the vague but nevertheless sometimes very real association with extremist Muslim politics,... c. The pressure put on women by pious husbands, or husbands with hang-ups about female sexuality, or husbands who want themselves to look good due to their wife's 'proper' behaviour: in other words, coercion.

Despite all that, I'm against a ban.

[CBfrmcardiff]

@CBfrmcardiff However, Bill Maher AGAIN fails to really put forward an intelligible point of view.

I don't think there's a problem practically with a woman wearing the niqab. The problem resides in the reasons for wearing a niqab, or, two/three of those possible reasons: a. The potential social pressure on Muslim women to inconvenience themselves or be labelled impious or sinful,... b. the fact that it can be a political statement: of seperation from (and superiority to) [CONTINUED...]

[CBfrmcardiff]

Sarah Silverman is hot.