Replace burqa with slave chains or straight-jackets or whatever disturbing thing you may find, to put it in perspective.
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But ishina, the problem is that a state which has the power to ban something we disapprove of also has the power to ban something we approve of.
I think we will always be fundamentally opposed to each other on this issue while it remains in this phase. You see it as imposing an undesirable restriction, giving a measure of power to an authorative body that ought not have it, and I see it as removing an undesirable restriction that was already imposed, and now the responsibility is back with us and we must embrace and explore human interaction on a more pure and equal level, tackling the problems if and when they arise. The burka isn’t just an article of clothing, it’s greater than the sum of its parts. It makes my blood boil when another women disappears under one. Another woman lost. What the burka actually represents, the symbolic nature of the burka that underlines this issue is one that cannot be stressed enough.
The debate on the burka is a healthy one. I think at the very least I am glad that this ban happened, because its forced the debate into new territory, forced people to play their hand. What I find fascinating about it is a good portion of people invested in it now, didn’t really give a shit about it until it was pushed into the public sphere in this kind of manner. And now there are masses of moral scavengers crawling out of the woodwork, building a bandwagon and rolling it out, seizing an opportunity to flex their insufferable moral superiority and posture a bit, pretend like they had a care to begin with. They suddenly have a lot to say about it whereas they might not have had before. Its forced people to think about it, if nothing else, rather than just paying lip service to it or pretending it didn’t actually matter to real women in this world. Its funny, as soon as it arrives on their doorstep or might affect them, even if just this imaginary and hyperbolic sense of losing rights they are not even in danger of losing anyway, they suddenly care.
And by the way, the burka isn’t even an Islamic religious requirement anyway, so this in no wise threatens anybodies freedom of religion. The only thing it threatens is man’s stranglehold on women, in a problematic demographic that struggles to integrate at the best of times and sometimes even refuses to when left on its own, if we‘re being honest. The idea that it might make women even worse prisoners of men is a separate issue really, an issue in itself. Lets put the blame for that where it belongs though, if it happens. It isn’t a direct symptom of the ban, it’s a symptom of the sickening and repulsive school of thought that thinks things like the burka are a good idea in the first place. It is the duty of the powers that be to address and work towards confronting this problem if it arises, and that’s where the pressure on them should be.
I’m happy that a small portion of the world has shed its skin, and it might hurt at first and have some growing pains, but I think over time it will be a good thing, if not directly for this generation, for future ones - European Muslims who will be born into a part of the world where the burka isn’t even an option and they’ll never likely be exposed to it, and it will maybe hopefully even be largely forgotten about with time, cast away, laid to rest, left to rot in the graveyard of failed human endeavours, nothing more than a curious museum piece to look at from a distance, like slave manacles or iron maidens.
Also, I don’t have the energy to pretend to sympathise with few silly religious bimbos and day-tripper Muslim chicks who want to make a fashion statement of this symbol of male oppression. I don’t personally give much of a fuck about their appeal to rights. They are lucky they have the luxury to practice Islam as part of an ‘alternative lifestyle choice’, and that it isn’t an orthodox version they have no choice but to surrender body, mind and soul to. If they absolutely must wear a burka, I can think of a few places where the burka is not only expected, but imposed on all women. Maybe they would be better suited there if this government isn’t fulfilling their needs as an individual. God forbid they ever learn how to be a special snowflake without wearing a full body tent, making a fashion accessory of the hideous tool of segregation and abuse.
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