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Originally Posted by HaydenAsche
No offense to anyone, but Burqas are fucking stupid. I mean, the Karan says NOTHING about women having to be covered up so WHY ARE THEY DOING IT?
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matter of interpretation i suppose.
i don't like burqas either, but that doesn't mean i'm in favor of banning them. it's practically impossible to participate in a modern western society while wearing a burqa. no employer's going to hire someone whose fully covered by a burqa and to be honest i don't think i'd feel much like socializing with anyone whose face and eyes i can't see either (not that i've ever seen anyone wearing them).
but to deny people by law the right to wear them on the street doesn't seem right. it's already bad enough that they are compulsory for women to wear in certain parts of the world... in a democracy women should have the right to choose... although it's arguable to which degree it's actually the women themselves who choose to wear them. supposedly before the taliban took over in afghanistan burqas were a rare sight in kabul.