(July 5, 2014 at 4:07 pm)Losty Wrote: Lets say I'm an abused, sexually insecure muslim woman who is coerced by my husband into wearing a niquab so nobody else gets to see me. That's what this indoctrination has done to me, I feel downtrodden, dis-empowered. Then the government, passes a law which means not only that my husband can't force me to wear the thing any more, but I cannot even wear it on my own free will.
He's probably not going to be any less abusive. At best he'll be suspicious and distrustful when I'm out. At worst he'll try to stop me leaving the house. The law alone won't stop him being an abusive bastard or me being oppressed. The law may however, give me hope. I can leave the oppression of this religion and this marriage and I have an entire nation at my back. I have my government making a stand for me, telling me I don't have to be oppressed.
Some courts are so prejudiced against Muslims that you would get a conviction of your hypothetical husband right away. And France didn't ban the hijab, that can still be worn. I don't think there is even a religious obligation to wear burkas or niqabs, if it's for modesty you can be modest without wearing those.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
