baldeagle wrote:
> On Jan 27, 8:57 am, Superbee <superb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Jan 27, 6:33 am, baldeagle <botakea...@yahoo.com.sg> wrote:
> >
> > > President Sarkozy has reiterated that the burka is "not welcome"
> > > in France. A French parliamentary committee has recommended that
> > > anyone showing visible signs of "radical religious practice"
> > > should be refused residence cards and citizenship.
> >
> > > Is it right for France to ban the burka ?
> >
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> > The burka is just a piece of cloth which if you think about it,
> > could be re-fashioned to cover your chest, buttocks, etc But the
> > burka covers the entire face except the eyes. So what so bad about
> > that? It's the same as Ninjas in ancient Japan. Then here is where
> > we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg. On the surface it looks
> > innocent enough, but below, it may hold dangerous ideologies or
> > extremist philosophies. It is no long just a piece of clothing but
> > what does the burka represent? What repercussions does it have on
> > those who wear them and to those who come into contact with them?
> > Does it represent a "separative" statement? Is a separative signal
> > what the country wants? Does the burka represent a repressive
> > ideology in the modern society of equality. In france, about 2,000
> > people wear the burka in a population of over 60 million. I am more
> > concern about extremist elements that have hidden agendas and is
> > only using the burka as an excuse to further their own ends.
>
> If people can look at the burka dispassionately, they see
> the burka as a piece of cloth, for covering the face of a
> woman.
> But people are emotional creatures..and what they wear
> are charged statements of their being...eg latest beauty
> fashion, religious robes, military or police uniform...
>
> To the Muslim burka wearer, it symbolises modesty,
> the moral superiority of Allah's people. (just wonder,
> Muslim males who bare their faces must be immoral !)
>
> To the French, it represent a threat to the purity of
> French culture, and the failure of these foreigners
> to be integrated into French society. It is also the
> banners of the millions Muslim trouble makers.
> (Stupid to allow 5 millions to migrate to France)
It isn't a question of preserving the purity of French culture, it has none,
it is, happily so, a nation of immigrants; Romans, Vandals, Goths, Moors,
Vikings etc. Inevtitable by its position in Europe. Those invasions and
immigrations are what have made French culture and France. But each has
caused problems no doubt.
There isn't really an "immigrant problem" in France IMO but there are
problems with, usually, the second or third generation offspring of
immigrants, those are the kids setting fire to cars in the suburbs of Paris
because they no longer belong 100% to their father or grandfather's culture,
often very little in fact, but for real or imaginary reasons, they haven't
managed to become 100% French.
Nowadays, the active proselytising of the Mad Mullahs and Islam generally is
giving some of them a point to their lives. Like all the newly converted,
they are over zealous and so go in for blowing themselves up in the worst
case, or locking their wife up in a Burqa at 'best'. While every inhabitant
of France should have the right to influence the country and its culture, if
what they wish to influence or bring in goes against the wishes of the
existing majority, then it is normal that they be resisted by that majority.
Such is the case for the Burqa, on many grounds, and it should be banned. It
is in complete opposition in every way to what Europe represents.
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