Mona Charen discusses:
You needn’t approve of the slatternly attire so often found on Western women to stoutly and angrily resist the encroachment of the burqa — and everything it represents — into Western life. Let’s be clear. It took guts for Sarkozy to say what did. He called the burqa “a sign of subjugation . . . of debasement.” Al-Qaeda, reliably enough, issued a fulminating statement: “We will not tolerate such provocations and injustices, and we will take our revenge from France . . . by every means and wherever we can reach them.”
I don’t buy the theory that Islam requires a woman to be veiled in public, let alone be entirely de-humanized by something like the burqa. In opposing the burqa, we are not attacking Islam but a facet of Islamo-fascism which seeks to suppress everything it fears…including independent women who look after themselves.
In the normal course of events, we would have little to say about the sartorial choices of Americans – as long as a minimum of public decency is maintained, we are free to wear what we wish. But I argue that the burqa is, in its own way, as indecent as a thong bikini – both modes of attire dehumanize and objectify women. I would not have American women treated as whores or slaves, and thus I believe we should – city by city, county by county and State by State, ban the wearing of the burqa in public and, indeed, prohibit the use of feature-disguising veils, as well. We are all human beings, endowed by God with our features, and no one must hide them…or, more accurately, have them hidden away by those who wish to control others.
What do you think?
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