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SwanSpirit · gold

Egypt Wants to Ban the Burqa, France and Italy Too!

Alex · Diamond

It's fine with me! And while they're at it, they can pronounce as NULL the barbaric laws of Islam!!

shadow · Platinum

It is a good thing. Ban them. When will our country do so???

Islam can claim the burka a religious thing, but if they desire to live in western countries (which they claim to hate) they need to follow the laws.

It really really bothers me to see a couple, clearly Islamic, the lady has on the whole burka thing, walking behind the man wearing cut off jean shorts and a t-shirt. furious

I lived in an apartment complex with them in the apartment above me. As they came down the stairs, I said hello to the woman wearing the burka, and the man, in jeans, stared at me, and slapped the lady. furious

freespirit · Moderator

From the article:

Sheikh Tantawi, regarded by many as Egypt’s Imam and Sunni Islam’s foremost spiritual authority, asked the teenage girl to remove her veil saying: “The niqab is a tradition, it has no connection with religion.” The imam instructed the girl, a pupil at a secondary school in Cairo’s Madinet Nasr suburb, never to wear the niqab again and promised to issue a fatwa, or religious edict, against its use in schools. The ruling will not affect use of the hijab, the Islamic headscarf worn by most Muslim women in Egypt.

Following the imam’s lead, Egypt’s minister of higher education is to ban female undergraduates from wearing the niqab from the country’s public universities, Cairo’s Al-Masri Al-Yom newspaper reported. “

Again, don’t rejoice too soon.

Even the very influential Sheikh Tantawi has his fundamentalist detractors who have excoriated him for supporting France’s ban on hijab in public schools and for shaking hands with Israeli President Shimon Peres. And, clearly, the Egyptian government is unhappy about the gathering forces of Islamic fundamentalism which consistently manipulate women and women’s clothing as symbolic political statements. Some have even called for more severe Islamic clothing for women in which only one eye (Algerian style) can show. The Egyptian government understands that it is at risk vis a vis Islamic fundamentalists.

Now, some European politicians understand this too.

At least some leaders of Muslim countries are not fundamentalists. But, as the article notes, it seems that if you don't agree with the fundamentalist Muslims (or Fundamentalist extremists of any religious or political group, actually), you become their enemy. No doubt there will be repercussions, as there always is when people think outside the box, and express independent thinking.

Really good article. Thanks, ss.

-- Edited by freespirit on Wednesday 7th of October 2009 09:53:51 PM