Comments on: Sarkozy endorses headscarf ban. http://woodthrush.net/2010/01/26/sarkozy-endorses-headscarf-ban/ writing in the woods about the woods and about writing Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:01:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: tbudd http://woodthrush.net/2010/01/26/sarkozy-endorses-headscarf-ban/#comment-34 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:33:45 +0000 http://woodthrush.net/2010/01/26/sarkozy-endorses-headscarf-ban/#comment-34 http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/02/03/france.burqa/index.html?hpt=T2

]]> By: tbudd http://woodthrush.net/2010/01/26/sarkozy-endorses-headscarf-ban/#comment-24 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:43:00 +0000 http://woodthrush.net/2010/01/26/sarkozy-endorses-headscarf-ban/#comment-24 Yeah. I’m not with you.
I identify as a woman more than a civil libertarian. And honestly, womanhood is more a civil, human right than religious freedom.

First, let’s face it. The headscarf is bullshit. The veil is even more vile bullshit. Some female has been enculturated to believe that if she doesn’t cover her hairline, she deserves to be raped because some desert-mythology says men are animals?

Headscarf, ok. Be free to be stupid.
Veil, burqa or niqab. No. Your religion does not exempt you from the secular laws that disallow masks or hidden-identity in public. And nothing in the Koran says women have to cover their faces.

I know. This is harsh. But so is unapologetic feminism. The “Rights of Man” says it all. Women weren’t even part of the question. Anything that might set the course right is welcome.

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