Throughout Europe the debate about the Burqa and Niqab is being surpassed by the direct action of governments to forbid their use. It is forbidden in France and Belgium. Some debate is now starting in Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Austria and Switzerland with the aim of the banning.
Sarkozy, affirmed "In our country, we cannot accept that women be prisoners behind a screen, cut off from all social life, deprived of all identity". This is also the reasons alleged by people who defend the banning.
I am no expert in religion and as written in previous posts it is hard for me to speak about it. Nonetheless these reasons do not make sense to me. They go against the freedom of people to live and express themselves as they want. If we forbid the use of a vestment that covers the whole body, why not to forbid also all the carnival disguises in that particular time of the year?!
One can say that these women are prisoners of their selfish husbands. I doubt (and i just doubt) that this can be generalized. Measures have to be taken against those men (the harasser) and not against the women (the victims).
Treating the problem the right way is always more difficult than suppress/forbid/discriminate.
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