Hobbes' Choice wrote:[
Really?
The French believe in liberty.
You believe in freedom.
Tell us what you think the smart first rule should be of anyone who is enjoying freedom and or liberty?
IOW. What is a free man's first responsibility to his fellow man?
Regards
DL
I'm glad you asked me this question.
It does not advance the cause of Liberty to enforce a dress code. If there is one woman that feels she wants to cover her face, and thinks it her religious duty to do so , then liberty demands that she be able to do so. Just as a nun makes a choice to enter the service of god agree to dress appropriately. Liberty is only served by toleration.
A law that in all cases bans the use of religious costume is tyranny.
Would a law be introduced to demand that no man could enforce a woman to wear those clothes then I could agree with that.
However the law is RACIST. Racism is on the rise in France and this is the result- a law that allows the habit, but denies the Burkha.
Liberty is served when a woman feels that she has the right to wear or not wear the Burkha, and be able to seek the protection of the law against any man, woman, or group that tries to enforce her to wear it.
The same needs be said of the nuns habit, as not so long ago French girls were forced to join nunneries.[/quote]
You are glad I asked the question but you did not answer it.
"Liberty is served when a woman feels that she has the right to wear or not wear the Burkha,"
Correct yet that right is denied her by Islam.
To answer my own question since you did not.
The first duty of a free person is to insure that all share that freedom and Muslim women are denied that right.
That is what the Golden Rule is all about.
That is likely the motivation of the ban on such apparel as Muslim women are forced to wear it by misogynous Muslim men.
Regards
DL