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So now after the majority of Belgium and Switzerland's populations support the banning on minarets, the majority of the French people support the ban on the blanket known as Burqa.

Interesting.

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MyOwnDrum

Interesting how the two cultures express their desire to constrain Islam; Switzerland, with an architectural ban and France with a fashion ban.

If France care so much about 'women's dignity', they would ban pornography and other demeaning and exploitative things towards women.

I think they should be more honest about their intent. It's not to protect woman's dignity, its a statement about right-winged, ultraconservative Islam, and that it's unwelcome in France.

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Partisan

So be it.............
It's about time that the western world recognize Islam for the evil it is & ban it outright......

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Aunt Spiker

Actually, no.

Pornography, the model industry and so forth don't require women to do anything that they don't want to do.
Burqa's are not a 'fashion' statement - they are a demanded part of a religion and a culture.

Huge difference.

There isn't a single culture or religion out there (that I can think of) in which pornography and so forth is a 'required' part of being a well rounded or accepted individual.

Pornography, modeling, prostitution = a freedom of choice and strongly related to opinion.
Burqas and hijabs are not.

So to many people these things represent oppression and subjugation, not freedom and an individual choice - and thus, they hate it.

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bub

France also condemns forced prostitution

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Urethra Franklin

Can we also ban evil christianity while we're about it?

All religions have their dark, evil sides. While banning them is appealing, it's probably not the intelligent answer.

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Wouldn't banning burqas be a sign of oppression and subjugation?


I don't think I am following the story accurately. The clothing shown in the article is not the Burqa,

This is the Burqa

They're distinctly blue because it's the Taliban's creation.

Anywho,
I think you have it backwards. I don't think it is a desire to constrain Islam, but a desire to preserve French and Swiss, respectively.

For the Nationalist Frenchmen and women who are sensitive to history, then the Algerian War of Independence still might be a sore-spot. The full-veil in Algeria was used by the FLA multiple times to smuggle members from one part of Algiers to another, usually setting up attacks.

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Jerry

I think broadly banning religious expression is dangerous.

How about banning murder instead?

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bub

Burqa is not religious, its cultural. Like polygamy

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