Quote Originally Posted by Idaho View Post
You don't get it do you dearest Fraggles. The debate is not about what happens elsewhere. It's about the nature of our society. And fundamental to that society is freedom of conscience, religion and dress.
Indeed. And I do not believe these women wearing burqas are free to do any of that. They are pressured into doing so by their relatives and their imported culture.

THAT is the point - that these women are not making a completely free decision to wear a burqas. It is a symbol of the repression of women.

Banning the burqa is therefore is therefore an attempt to fight this repression of women and introduce more western values - ie. of equality.

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