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Would you favor a law banning burqas in the United States?

Would you favor a law banning burqas in the United States?

  • Yes

    Votes: 15 17.6%
  • No

    Votes: 66 77.6%
  • Other

    Votes: 4 4.7%

  • Total voters
    85

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Tomorrow France's Burqa Ban law goes into effect, would you be in favor of a similar law here in the United States?

Debate as France readies burqa ban - UPI.com

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Such a law violates both freedom of speech and freedom of religion. So no, I would not favor such a law.
 
If they were banned, what would I wear, when I go clubbing?

I would suggest saranwrap if you were a young fit and attractive female.

But given you are a hairy ape, the burka it is
 
Does Allah really say they must dress like that? When I was a kid women were supposed to wear some sort of head veil or hat to church. Men would take off their hats when entering. So there were acceptable customs that were followed.

None of that garb kept anyone from being recognized. That's just too important a thing on so many levels
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So I'm sorry ladies, no burkas, But do where a bra in church for heavens sake!
 
No, it shouldn't be banned but requirements to show your face for a drivers license or so a police officer can identify you is, in my opinion, reasonable.
 
Such a law violates both freedom of speech and freedom of religion. So no, I would not favor such a law.

A very black and white answer for a very black and white world in which we don't live.

Your answer would be fine if every woman under a burqa were wearing one out of free choice, but they're not. Many are under a burqa because of force, or fear of the consequences if they don't tow the line. Many live in communities where rejection by family and community would be too hard to bear, hence they do as they feel they should so as not to be cast out, stigmatised or punished. Yes there will always be some exceptoin to the rule the Sunday papers who says she loves living under a curtain and she chose it, but they're far from the majority. Let's cut this crap that most burqua wearing women are free thinking feminists who've chosen to live covered - that argument sinks like a stone. And let's be frank about what wanting to keep wives and daughters under such subjugation really says about how much you value women as equals. Certain civil freedoms quite rightly take priority over a supposed religious freedom such as this one.

Doubtless as ever on DP, the usual French bashers, relying on Fox news and having never set foot on French soil, will crawl out of the woodwork here. All I can say is that as somebody who isn't French but lives in France, most women and most muslims (of both sexes) here welcome this ban. A few mullahs will scream injustice, but they're not representative of the majority.
 
The question is whether or not anyone has the right to restrain the religious practices of anyone. As long as the burqa-wearing is not causing harm to another person, this question should not even be IN question.
 
Removing burqas in order to end subjugation of Muslim women, is like giving a wig to someone with radiation sickness. It only treats a symptom and does nothing to help with the actual problem. Abused women would still be just as dominated, and ones who wear one at their own volition would have their 1st Amendment rights violated.
 
No, it shouldn't be banned but requirements to show your face for a drivers license or so a police officer can identify you is, in my opinion, reasonable.

But how an I going to recognize you if you rob me? I couldn't! There's just no way people can go around completely anonymously in a civilized society.
 
A very black and white answer for a very black and white world in which we don't live.

Your answer would be fine if every woman under a burqa were wearing one out of free choice, but they're not. Many are under a burqa because of force, or fear of the consequences if they don't tow the line. Many live in communities where rejection by family and community would be too hard to bear, hence they do as they feel they should so as not to be cast out, stigmatised or punished. Yes there will always be some exceptoin to the rule the Sunday papers who says she loves living under a curtain and she chose it, but they're far from the majority. Let's cut this crap that most burqua wearing women are free thinking feminists who've chosen to live covered - that argument sinks like a stone. And let's be frank about what wanting to keep wives and daughters under such subjugation really says about how much you value women as equals. Certain civil freedoms quite rightly take priority over a supposed religious freedom such as this one.

Doubtless as ever on DP, the usual French bashers, relying on Fox news and having never set foot on French soil, will crawl out of the woodwork here. All I can say is that as somebody who isn't French but lives in France, most women and most muslims (of both sexes) here welcome this ban. A few mullahs will scream injustice, but they're not representative of the majority.

Well, what you say may be the case in Arab Muslim countries where women are forced to wear burqas.

However, here in the United States women have the freedom of speech and freedom of religion to refuse to wear it as well.

That's what you fail to realize - that people have a choice. And in the United States Muslim women have the choice to be as religiously conservative as they want to be. Or as secular and liberated as she wants to be.

And should a community try to ostracize her for her choices then she also has the freedom of association and therefore may choose not to associate with that community. And should such a community choose to infringe on her civil rights and civil liberties she can use the due process of law to protect herself against that community.

So the same freedom of speech and freedom of religion that prevents a ban of the wearing of burqas by women is also the same freedom of speech and freedom of religion that prevents the forced wearing of burqas by women.
 
I'd also like add, the question asks if the United States should ban the wearing of burqas. And I believe no, we here in the U.S. shouldn't. However, the U.S. has a different culture than France or the European Union as a whole. They hold different values and support them in different ways.

So my position has absolutely nothing to do with bashing the French or watching Fox News. I don't watch Fox News and I have absolutely nothing against the French.

So the rest of what your post may be somewhat valid. However, you may want to get to know the person a bit more before you make personal attacks against them.

You don't want to be as inaccurate as you accuse them of being, after all.
 
Such a law violates both freedom of speech and freedom of religion. So no, I would not favor such a law.

Exactly my feelings...

No different from banning a kippah/yarmulke or crucifix IMO..
 
i would not favor a law that violates freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

does anyone really believe honestly, that the majority of people who applaud a move like this care about women's rights? the fact is that this law would deny women the right to choose what they wear, and that is every bit as wrong as men denying women the right to choose what they wear.
 
A very black and white answer for a very black and white world in which we don't live.

Your answer would be fine if every woman under a burqa were wearing one out of free choice, but they're not. Many are under a burqa because of force, or fear of the consequences if they don't tow the line. Many live in communities where rejection by family and community would be too hard to bear, hence they do as they feel they should so as not to be cast out, stigmatised or punished. Yes there will always be some exceptoin to the rule the Sunday papers who says she loves living under a curtain and she chose it, but they're far from the majority. Let's cut this crap that most burqua wearing women are free thinking feminists who've chosen to live covered - that argument sinks like a stone. And let's be frank about what wanting to keep wives and daughters under such subjugation really says about how much you value women as equals. Certain civil freedoms quite rightly take priority over a supposed religious freedom such as this one.

Doubtless as ever on DP, the usual French bashers, relying on Fox news and having never set foot on French soil, will crawl out of the woodwork here. All I can say is that as somebody who isn't French but lives in France, most women and most muslims (of both sexes) here welcome this ban. A few mullahs will scream injustice, but they're not representative of the majority.

Great post :) Just like the taliban controlling afghanistan before we went in would beat women in the street with a stick for dropping their veils or wearing what THEY considered inappropriate attire. Many women would throw that miserable uncomfortable thing away in a flash if the men would allow it.
 
i would not favor a law that violates freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

does anyone really believe honestly, that the majority of people who applaud a move like this care about women's rights? the fact is that this law would deny women the right to choose what they wear, and that is every bit as wrong as men denying women the right to choose what they wear.
Well none of us is allowed to ear whatever the hell we want. None of us.
 
Great post :) Just like the taliban controlling afghanistan before we went in would beat women in the street with a stick for dropping their veils or wearing what THEY considered inappropriate attire. Many women would throw that miserable uncomfortable thing away in a flash if the men would allow it.

And the United States is in great danger of invasion and conquest by the Taliban these days?
 
Well none of us is allowed to ear whatever the hell we want. None of us.

Actually... for the most part we are. As long as what we're wearing doesn't directly do harm to others, we can wear whatever we want. Hell, in some states, women can go topless, or choose to NOT wear whatever they want.
 
Banning them, certainly not. That's a violation of our most basic freedoms. However, I'd be entirely fine saying they cannot be worn under certain circumstances, such as for driver's license pictures. When religious freedom gets in the way of basic public safety and identification, screw religious freedom.
 
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