Burqa Ban - Yes or No (religious clothing, jewlery, etc.) (tradition, minority)

[Fluffy]

Good point; to which you can now add the 'hoodie'. I voted "Depends on the situation(post) " because I can see both sides of the coin, and I am not actually sure which way I should think about this.

I'ma big fan of hoodies . They keep my ears warm and let me go where I want relatively unmolested. However, lets just say that I am wearing one because I intend to do something illegal and having my face covered will allow me to do so and protect my identity. So I go to the bank or wherever, with the hood down, which is perfectly legal. Then a safe distance away from the bank where I know there is no CCTV, I put my hood up and go in. Making it illegal to wear a something over my head doesn't stop me from doing this. In fact it doesn't really make it any more difficult at all.

[MidnightBlue]

Originally Posted by Jensa

You're wrong.

Explain.

[Jaymes]

There are many women who wear burqas because they want to and feel it makes people pay attention to their personality and what they're saying instead of their body. Or just because they like it. I know it may be hard to grasp in our "show your arse" societies, but it does happen.

Semeen Issa and Laila Al-Marayati write in "An Identity Reduced to a Burka", "What doesn't penetrate Western consciousness, however, is that forced uncovering is a tool of oppression [also]. During the reign of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Iran, wearing the veil was prohibited. As an expression of their opposition to his repressive regime, women who supported the 1979 Islamic Revolution marched in the street clothed in chadors.
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In Turkey, the secular regime considers the head scarf a symbol of extremist elements that want to overthrow the government. Accordingly, women who wear any type of head-covering are banned from public office, government jobs and academia, including graduate school.
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Dress should not bar Muslim women from exercising their Islam-guaranteed rights, like the right to be educated, to earn a living and to move about safely in society. . . Nevertheless, these associations [that a veil = repression] lead to the general perception that "behind the veil" lurk other, more insidious examples of the repression of women, and that wearing the veil somehow causes the social ills that plague Muslim women around the world."

[ChrisP]

No. Wear what you like. Or nothing if you prefer.