(July 2, 2014 at 7:00 am)pocaracas Wrote: Double standard much?
In Iran and other muslim countries people are forbidden from wearing:
- Shorts
- Skirts that show any leg
- T-shirts
- Just any clothing that shows any skin besides face and hands.
These people left their home countries to find a better living abroad and now want to mold the other places of the world to resemble their home countries?!
Stupidity at work!
The law exists, you break it, your visa gets revoked, you go back to wherever you came from.
If you were born in this country, but still want to abide by the stupid religious rules, do so in private. It's a secular country. What you can and can't do in public is regulated. Just as much as you can't wear a face mask, you also can't be naked in public.
How do you get from wearing a face covering to wanting to mould the country into a muslim state?! Wearing a face covering is just... wearing a face covering. Its a personal choice, It ain't moulding shit! Now if they were saying EVERYONE should wear one you might have a point. But aside from a few loony jihadist who can be ignored, thats not the case!
As to what is done in public being regulated, there are generally reasons for that. "because I don't like what it represents" is not a good one! Once you open that pandoras box, what next? Who decides what is an OK religious or political symbol and what is not? Who decides that burkas are not ok, but rasta hats or dreadlocks are. Or Crucifixes. Or those little hats Jews wear. Or the CND logo. Or Greenpeace.
I think the difference between a country where you are not allowed to wear shorts and one you are is the freedom to choose. Otherwise the only difference between us and them in regards to clothing is what item of clothing it is! That over there they don't let you wear thing A and over here they don't let you wear thing B. That makes us different to them to be sure, but does it make us any better?
To me it seems like the exact same principle. Banning an item of clothing because the government does not like what it represents. Its not ok when Iran does it and it makes me deeply uncomfortable when a western democracy does it.
I'm quite surprised I'm the only one here who seems to have a problem with this. Are there any other religious symbols or items of clothes people want to be made illegal?
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