French President Nicholas Sarkozy condemned the wearing of burquas by Muslim women in France as an insult to their dignity and sense of identity, and is considering a nationwide ban on the garment. Via BBC:
In a major policy speech, he said the burka - a garment covering women from head to toe - reduced them to servitude and undermined their dignity.
Mr Sarkozy also gave his backing to the establishment of a parliamentary commission to look at whether to ban the wearing of burkas in public.
In 2004, France banned the Islamic headscarves in its state schools.
'Not welcome'
"We cannot accept to have in our country women who are prisoners behind netting, cut off from all social life, deprived of identity," Mr Sarkozy told a special session of parliament in Versailles.
"That is not the idea that the French republic has of women's dignity.
"The burka is not a sign of religion, it is a sign of subservience. It will not be welcome on the territory of the French republic," the French president said.
It is ironic that after years of mocking the French as cheese-eating surrender monkeys, it is the French who are poised to take over the US position as a defender of freedom. It was France who first stood up to the Somali pirates wreaking havoc in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean; it was France, not the US, who came out in support of the brave demonstrators risking their lives for a free Iran; and it is President Sarkozy, not President Obama, who has taken a consistently strong stand for women's rights, refusing to bow to the tyranny of "cultural differences" that enslave women, even those who live in a free country.
Let's hope that Sarkozy's proposal meets with a spirited but civilized debate, unlike the riots which followed the earlier headscarf ban. Congratulations to President Sarkozy for once again demonstrating that Western Civilization is worth defending, not something to be apologized for.
1 comments:
you can argue that a burqua is "enslavement" or "subservience", ask a woman who wears one and she will say it is for dignity and modesty, and she will also tell you it has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH RELIGION. banning it and relating it to religion in any manner is clearly showing either ignorance and lack of intelligence, or the intolerance for freedom of religion championed by the people who claim they champion freedom. I personally think the real enslavement is women having to dress revealingly or with tight fitting clothes to "look good" and beyond that the shallow society that needs to "look good". same society persecutes a whole people for their belief systems, while at least the burqua people don't run around conquering countries and inducing genocide...setting up puppet governments then taking the leaders out when they get off the leash...blog all u want, but a word of advice? don't speak about things u have limited knowledge on, but more importantly do not understand because it may be the limited knowledge impairing u and makes u look unintelligent..no disrespect, just my 2 cents..but then again u probably live in a country where a man can openly stare at you and your body and make sexual advances to you, and where being or dressing like a slut gets you more attention from men, rather than getting u killed. if that doesn't reach you, don't knock it before u try a burqua out and see how your own people react to you. then tell me religious intolerance/a worse subservience than sarkozy is talking about doesn't exist towards the woman who chooses to wear a burqua...if that last line hit you, then u know why you arent ready for your burqua
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