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12-04-2011, 05:38 AM | #51 | |||
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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 I don't like religion though, in part because of how outdated a concept it is and how so many ridiculous values are held in spite of a changing society.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against the freedom of choice ideology, I think it's a step in the right direction towards ridding society of these outdated values.
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12-04-2011, 09:16 AM | #52 | |||
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12-04-2011, 01:31 PM | #53 | |||
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"but I don't really agree with banning it "
No Zee this is France not Scotland they have every Right to inforce it. |
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12-04-2011, 03:52 PM | #54 | ||
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12-04-2011, 04:57 PM | #55 | |||
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12-04-2011, 08:18 PM | #56 | |||
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I think it's a disturbing new development that France feels it needs to enforce a new dress code. But I suppose it's not too surprising considering Europeans have, in sociological terms, positive freedom whereas Americans have negative freedom. If you don't like the burka why in the world did you allow millions of people from Muslim countries in to your country in the first place? They never agreed that they would dress like other French people.
I feel the government's responsibility is to protect unpopular freedom of speech and expression, not to cater to the impulses of the common people. |
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12-04-2011, 08:35 PM | #57 | |||
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Here in England we ain't the Euro and not Europeans. |
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12-04-2011, 08:42 PM | #58 | |||
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12-04-2011, 09:06 PM | #59 | |||
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In another thread it seemed like more than half of the people here wanted to stay in the European Union. It's cute how calling the English European can rankle them just like Canadians being called American irks them.
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13-04-2011, 06:48 PM | #60 | |||
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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?
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