Banning the Burqa?

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Which is another point entirely. It has very little to do with "Freedom of expression" an more to do with the oppression of females. Either way it is an archaic and backward mode of dress and those who "preferred" it should see a counsellor for agoraphobia

Well, I never saw clothing as a "way of expression" in the first place, given that daily clothes are in question. Only angsty teenagers do this.

It really doesn't concern me if people wear jilbabs. They only get more and more attention towards themselves when they do this. Here, in a moslem country, they're too much of a rare sight, to be honest.
Most people who oppose them do so due to them being branded as a threat to secularism. I however, disagree. Some fundamentalists with small brains can never hope to change the system with just wearing archaic arab clothing.
Whatever they do, they do to their own. Thanks to them, their wives are not able to participate in the daily life most other Turkish women can.
Although this can sometimes be a blessing for some who just don't want to leave the house, and can show their jilbabs as a reason, I'm sure that these are the products of a very troubled mind. We here believe in the morals of our women. Although again, modesty is an important issue for us, we do not feel the need to protect our women from the attentions of other men via dressing them up like these. It's best that we leave that to the women themselves, as this is what our society was envisioned to be.
Morally pure for all sexes, where no man would eye the woman of another, while no woman would return the attentions of a man while she was with another.
I guess it's only fair if we do not associate morality with dressing in a jilbab.

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Besides, in ancient arabian society, the Jilbab had an entirely different connection.
I could state that it was something that was only available to wear by nobility.
It was made available to the common freewoman after the Moslem religion archived widespread acceptance.
It's purpose was to demonstrate women that they did not need to leave the house, and that their husbands would take care of their every need, something which was only available to the noblewomen of arabian society.
It did not gained the same acceptance for many other non-arab moslem people, as women were still required to work there, plough the fields, tend to animals, take care of other duties outside of the house. Some even were required to be able to use weapons and firearms. How can a woman move freely outside while wearing something as a jilbab?
Obviously, arab women were not required to do any of these. They only needed to tend the house, and clean it, cook food, and take care of the children.