Should America BAN Burqa's???

you're kidding, right?

Of course not. This is America. Freedom.

 

Which one - "Burga" King, McDonald's, Wendy's, Whataburga?

 

Do we still live in America? Sometimes, like when I hear inane ideas such as the one in the OP, I wonder.

So, are we to assume that every woman who chooses to wear a burka is choosing to be oppressed? Or just that she is too dumb to understand that she is BEING oppressed or she wouldn't wear it?

 

Ban them. I'm sorry but we cannot allow the Muslims anymore leeway in this country. It is one of the most disgusting forms of repression of women and should never be allowed in this country.

 

No, we must respect the rule of law and allow them.

 

Salty's thoughts are the same as mine. A full body covering would lend itself to all kinds of mischief. You have to remember that there have been female suicide bombers used in the middle east, as well as men using burqa to sneak in closer to their targets. What's to stop them from doing the same here?

No one is allowed to wear a face mask that obscures their identity. Islam or not, that same law should apply across the board.

 

so we're to start outlawing clothing, more stupid laws imposed on us, outlaw this, and whats next?

 

Since when was it illegal to wear a face mask? It's one thing if a cop, judge, etc. tells you to take it off to see your identity, but, to my knowledge, wearing one isn't illegal per se.

 

Me either. So long as it's under a burqa. :tongue3:

 

The civil rights issue problem with banning the burqa as an article of (at least quasi-) religious clothing is, once you establish the principle of banning religious clothes, where does it stop? Ban clergy from wearing dog collars? Amish and Mennonite women from wearing head-scarves? Christians wearing crosses? I've seen this sort of thing in France, and all the Christians smirked when the government did it to the Muzzies, but they stopped smirking when they started banning Christian religious symbols...remember Niemoller's words: "First they came for the communists, and I did not protest because I was not a communist...etc".

 

This issue of expediency without thinking through all the repercussions concerns me as well. We far to often act before we think things through.

 

then you agree they can ban christians from wearing christian tshirts, or crosses? christianity is more and more being called hate speech, and now we're possible terrorists if we're christians in this country. we're enxt, and you give permission, after others want to be safe too, from us.
Start giving away freedoms, it won't be long till you lose more, and soon, there are none.

 

Exactly, glad someone else sees what the possible problems are with this.

 

You see, the trouble is that's the sort of argument I've heard put forward - by secularists and others - against the wearing of headcoverings by women in certain Christian fundamentalist denominations. "If you wants to butter you bread that way, you'se better be prepared to eat it."