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“Denmark’s Burqa Ban will Affect, at most, 0.2% of Muslim Women There”

What a sexist, ethnocentric, headline.

Denmark’s burqa ban will affect one hundred percent of the women there.

Obviously the salafist enthusiasts who wear it will have to take it off. That is the very least of it.

The reason huge majorities of people of all faiths and genders all over Europe tell pollsters they want the burqa off their streets is that it affects all modern egalitarian civic-minded human beings. It is most damaging to girls and young women, who grow up witnessing the most graphic exposure of — not the inferiority, but the nothingness of women, every day of their lives as they walk the streets of their cities. It is only slightly less corrosive to everyone else, as they suffer basic ongoing offense to their basic democratic instincts. Do I really live in a country where men can blind, deafen, and mute their women? For most rational people, the answer to this question has got to be no. And that is why, one after another, the countries of Europe are banning it.

Margaret Soltan, June 1, 2018 7:25AM
Posted in: democracy

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One Response to ““Denmark’s Burqa Ban will Affect, at most, 0.2% of Muslim Women There””

  1. Semiotics | Technology as Nature Says:

    […] is why I am 100% for burqa bans and (mostly) for hijab bans as well. Liberals like to pretend that symbols don’t convey […]

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