Oppression or submission?
The French are mulling over whether they can pass a law making it illegal for a woman to wear a burqa.
The Muslims will say that this is something that the women are doing without being forced to do so, as an act of submission to their god.
My question is, when the Hindu women were throwing themselves on the funeral pyres of their husbands, they were also doing it without being forced to, weren't they?
Which will result in the obvious question whether voluntarily burning one's self to death is the same as wearing a burqa.
The answer is yes, when it comes to following religious or cultural edicts, without any logical reason, they both fall into the same category. So if society can legislate to outlaw women burning themselves to death, can they also be allowed to stop this seemingly harmless code of dress?
The Muslims will say that this is something that the women are doing without being forced to do so, as an act of submission to their god.
My question is, when the Hindu women were throwing themselves on the funeral pyres of their husbands, they were also doing it without being forced to, weren't they?
Which will result in the obvious question whether voluntarily burning one's self to death is the same as wearing a burqa.
The answer is yes, when it comes to following religious or cultural edicts, without any logical reason, they both fall into the same category. So if society can legislate to outlaw women burning themselves to death, can they also be allowed to stop this seemingly harmless code of dress?
posted by Xoff at 6/20/2009 08:10:00 AM
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i've got to say, the burqa thing gets me as well, ...i just recently had a cousin lament missing her husband, i jokingly replied why did you loose him, check the closet, turns out he was out on jamaat, preaching to the converted, which in her book, was better then a night out with the boys, or staying late at work...at that point, i decided that indoctrination which ever way you paint it, is just that, i would get no where, trying to argue, against it.
the wearing of the burqa is much the same, .....unlike the act of throwing ones self, on a funeral pyre, it resembles a cross worn by christians say....i don't believe sarkozy, is going about banning that, or nuns from wearing a habit...etc,etc....
this outward display of ones religiousity, is just that. what could possibly suggest it requires banning,..surely the french still believe in liberte,egalite,fraternite.....
short little man become a dictator or something?
It has been a long long discussion, prompted by this post on another forum. What it boiled down to was whether the burqa falls under the freedom of expression domain or not? And if religion trumps all other arguments, then we don't have a chance. So be it!
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