RE: Ban the Burkini
September 4, 2016 at 3:45 pm
(This post was last modified: September 4, 2016 at 3:57 pm by Regina.)
"When in Rome, do as the Romans" is just a fashionable term people have suddenly revived again in response to this. It's also being said as a double standard, because you wouldn't be saying "when in Rome..." if you were in Tehran being scolded by the religious police for showing too much hair. You'd be complaining then, and you'd be pissed off if the locals were talking about some "when in Rome...".
We're not ancient Rome, nor are we Saudi Arabia or Iran. We're societies who (pretty constantly) talk on and on about how we value "freedom of expression" and womens' rights. That's a modern democratic concept.
Freedom of expression and womens' rights includes the right of an individual Muslim woman to not be told how to dress by anyone other than herself. Whether you're another Muslim who wants her to cover up, or someone else who wants her to strip down, it's not your decision to make and you need to let it go.
It's so petty.
We're not ancient Rome, nor are we Saudi Arabia or Iran. We're societies who (pretty constantly) talk on and on about how we value "freedom of expression" and womens' rights. That's a modern democratic concept.
Freedom of expression and womens' rights includes the right of an individual Muslim woman to not be told how to dress by anyone other than herself. Whether you're another Muslim who wants her to cover up, or someone else who wants her to strip down, it's not your decision to make and you need to let it go.
It's so petty.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
