(February 3, 2017 at 10:50 pm)robvalue Wrote: I support the ban on burqas too, simply because it's a security risk. In England we're too pussy to ban it even though it breaks our laws about concealing your face in certain places.
I actually saw someone in a burqa for the first time ever, just a few weeks ago. It was quite shocking to me. She was with a bloke who had her on a short leash, based on my extremely brief experience.
Edit: Doesn't the fact that Wetsern women are walking around with plenty of flesh showing without being pounced on by men every five seconds give Muslims pause about the necessity of those stupid things?
That fact doesn't give Muslims pause because there is an attitude present in many religious communities that non-religious people often don't understand. Regardless of how backwards hyper religious people can seem, they often still carry a certain hubris with them that makes them feel superior to the nonbelievers.
They could come from a country steeped in crime, barbaric penal laws, corruption, retrograde technology and education, and yet they will still consider themselves and their culture beyond reproach from Westerners because there is this fundamental assumption that their way of life is superior and the unbelievers are steeped in degeneracy.
So from this attitude you get this belief that Western women are whores because they wear skirts and their shoulders are showing, so they need to be covered. I'm not going to generalize all Muslims, but there is a substantial amount of the migrants who are fleeing disaster countries and yet still feel superior to the people of the countries they are fleeing to in Europe simply based on their belief in Islam. This is an incredibly self-destructive attitude and I don't think there can be much progress in bettering the Muslim world until Islam is humbled and gets rid of the hubris it has. That's what happened for the Christian world. After the cataclysmic wars of religion in the 1500s and 1600s Europe actually engaged in self-criticism and conceived of the revolutionary idea that maybe this monolithic religious path wasn't the right and only path for civilization, maybe there were alternative ways to live. This thinking gave birth to so many of the great minds of the Enlightenment who built the foundation of the modern world. The Islamic world has to do the same.
