[T]he woman paid the fine, removed her full-face cover and walked away.
Which is the way burqa bans are working all over Europe. Wear a burqa, remove the burqa, pay a fine for having worn the burqa. This woman didn’t know about the ban. Now she knows about it. End of story.
Wanna make something of it? Wanna spend your personal fortune paying the fines of all the women who wear burqas so they can continue to wear burqas? No problem. Go ahead.
Wanna trash your incredibly hard-won freedoms by wearing burqas in street demonstrations, in some twisted gesture of affiliation with erased women? Okay.
Meanwhile countries across the world are issuing calm directives to their citizens not to wear the burqa in most European countries. People are calmly removing the burqa. Civil existence, often called upon to defend itself, defends itself. Life goes on.
September 6th, 2018 at 12:05PM
glad to hear all the tensions between european law enforcement and post-colonial ethnic minorities have been settled in such a simple manner, civility rules…
September 6th, 2018 at 1:10PM
Well, far as I can tell, for the most part it does. People tend to be law-abiding, even if they don’t like the law.
September 7th, 2018 at 6:21PM
This must be that Clash of Civilizations yaba Sam Huntington prattled on about….