Trying to get this on topic again ...


Banning burka's? Yes!

Why?

They are a symbol tool of oppression. Oppression of women and what's worse, it is a kind of oppression that is still going on in the world. Burkas symbolize an aspect of a (wrong) intepretaton of a Holy book like the Quran which allows women to be treated as inferior beings.

In our society, women are considered to be equal i.e. with the same rights as men. They are to be treated with the same amount of respect as men.

Banning the burka is banning a symbol that stands for an attitude that doesn't cope with the standards of our society.

Those yelling that it's a deprivement of our freedoms are wrong. The burka itself deprives women of the freedoms which they have as being part of our communities.

On a side note, one should always remember that there wouldn't be any "freedoms" for anybody without a certain amount of rules and standards to obey.