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Originally Posted by Zee
I find the burka really intimidating, personally, but I don't really agree with banning it - the fashion police is now apparently a real thing! Hah. I don't like religion though, in part because of how outdated a concept it is and how so many ridiculous values are held in spite of a changing society. We don't roast animals over an open fire anymore, we don't build our own homes and so on so why do some sectors of society maintain other practices from thousands of years ago, e.g. wearing the burka? It's all a bit ridiculous IMO. Even though France banning it goes against the freedom of choice ideology, I think it's a step in the right direction towards ridding society of these outdated values.
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The absurdity of the pro-ban brigade is this.
Banning burkhas is apparently acceptable and inoffensive to ordinary muslims, because burkhas are not a requirement of Islam and never have been. Fine this is a valid point, their existence can be traced back to Manichean Persia.
How then are we supposed to accept that this ban is an attack on Wahhabi Islam alone -as commentators such as Yasmin Alibai-Brown seem so sure of- and not an attack on the ethnic customs of its wearers?