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Europe Takes One More Step Toward Eliminating the Burqa
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friends to like this.Europe has finally come to its senses and taken a stand in favor of the Western Enlightenment enterprise.
On July
1, 2014, the European Court of Human Rights upheld
the 2010 French burqa ban, a religion-neutral piece of legislation
which eliminates face masks. By
a "majority" voteof seventeen judges with two dissents,
the Court found that the ban did not violate "Article 8 [the right
respect for private and family life of the European Convention on Human
Rights] and [there was] no violation of Article 9 [the right to respect for
freedom of thought, conscience and religion]." No further appeals are
possible.
As the
author of Ban the Burqa? An Argument in Favor,
I applaud this decision, on the grounds of security, and as a matter of
women's human rights. The obliteration of female identity is not a Western
value.
Criminals
and terrorists wear masks. Men have been known to dress in flowing burqas in
order to rob jewelry stores or to escape after committing a terrorist
act. In an interview,scholar
Daniel Pipes said:
"France leads the way in banning a repugnant garment from
the public square that restricts young women's rights, poses a criminal and
terrorist danger to the society, and does yet other forms of damage. In
this, Americans should emulate the braver and wiser French."
In
addition to the very real danger of terrorism and ordinary crime, there is
also a human rights violation involved in face-masking.
Related Topics: Islamic
Gender & Religious Apartheid, Jihad &
Terrorism
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