Banning Burqas: Yea or Nay?

7 thoughts on “Banning Burqas: Yea or Nay?”

1. Nay. “You can’t be expressing yourself like that voluntarily, so we’re going to forbid you from doing so” doesn’t work for me. It’s a little “we had to destroy freedom to save it” for my tastes.Report

2. We in this country ban bagging/sagging pants in some places or thongs on some beaches so why not let them ban burqas?Report

   1. @Scott, “We grossly exceed government power in area X, why not area Y?”

      I can’t believe you aren’t a bigger fan of Obama, Scott.Report

      1. I don’t consider banning risque clothing like thongs from public beaches is a gross excess of government power, but I’m not foolish enough to argue about nakedness with a jaybird.Report

   2. I’ll go partway — it’s OK to ban overly revealing burquas.Report

3. Nay with caveats.
   Liscences/ID: Require face photographs. Provide em or do without.
   Public Servants: Have to serve all of the public and being hidden under a textile haystack severely impedes this. Meet your jobplace requirements or find a different job.
   Prehistoric Arabic Men who harass women who don’t wear burquas: We’re not in 200 BC pal. Take your stone age social opression back to your stoneage countries. Anything that goes beyond yelling; throw the book at em. If the book isn’t tough enough; write a heavier book.Report

4. Wear whatever you want in the privacy of your own home.Report

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