Angela Merkel joins the chorus.
UD is thankful for her strong statement. We’re getting there.
And by the way. The full veil is not appropriate anywhere.
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You can watch the reaction she got here.
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But Burhan Kesici, the general secretary of Germany’s Islamic Council, criticised Merkel’s comments. “The government should carefully study similar moves in France, and ask themselves if one side-effect of such a ban is that it can actually lead to women feeling more excluded from society,” he said.
Wirklich? More excluded than if they walk around completely covered in a black sack – down to their fingertips? Their mouths covered by cloth for enforced silence and difficulty breathing? Vitamin D deficiency for them and their babies because no sunlight?
If this describes, for you, any sort of “society” at all, let me know.
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A voice from the left.
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This symbol would divide humanity between those of glorious body, graced with no less glorious a face, and those whose bodies and faces are an outrage in the flesh, a scandal, a filthy thing not to be seen but hidden or neutralized.
A classic take-down of the pro-slavery position.
December 6th, 2016 at 3:13PM
And yet, I’m amazed at how many otherwise sane people try to defend the right of women to wear the burqa and niqab. Imagine if there was a group of men who covered their faces completely whenever they were in public. How disturbing (and threatening) would that be?Unless it was during a blizzard, we would immediately assume the person was involved in criminal activity. Or in the klan.
December 6th, 2016 at 3:22PM
Anon: I share your amazement. There’s the obvious security issue, as you point out. There’s an equally obvious human dignity issue; and yet many intellectuals are quite self-congratulatory about their defense of the right of women to stifle themselves and their helpless young daughters under full-cover veils.