French burka ban proposal riles Muslims

petros

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When in Rome....
 

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Masks and other face coverings are perfectly legal in Canada.




Also I think you are confused about which country you live in. Canada is multicultural, which means we tolerate and respect other cultures, including ones where people wear unusual clothing.

Canadian Multiculturalism

If you don't like this aspect of Canada, why not move to the US?



Now you are talking about a public safety issue. Public safety trumps cultural and religious freedoms.

Sikhs cannot take their daggers onto a plane for example.

Multiculturalism is cultural suicide.

A policy by idiots for idiots.
 

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Seems to work here just fine.

I see no evidence to the contrary.

I see LOTS of evidence to the contrary....atarting with Jamaican street gangs, continuing through the persecution by the HRTs of Levant and Steyn et al, to the conscious denial of the facts of female circumcision and honour killing, to foreign influence on provincial politicians, to the reaction on our campuses to free speech.

That said, I am divided on banning the burka. I do NOT like the idea of telling someone by law what they may or may not wear.

But, let me re-iterate, if you wear the burka by choice, you do NOT belong here. It is a symbol of female submission, and extreme religious fundamentalism, a devotion to a religious philosophy that is the antithesis of liberty.

Go home.
 

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Women's shoes that clonk when they walk. I saw a old black and white flick one time that had a milkhorse that sounded the same.
 

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I see LOTS of evidence to the contrary....atarting with Jamaican street gangs, continuing through the persecution by the HRTs of Levant and Steyn et al, to the conscious denial of the facts of female circumcision and honour killing, to foreign influence on provincial politicians, to the reaction on our campuses to free speech.

Sorry, but I don't see how multiculturalism adds to any of that.

Immigration does though....are you agianst that?

...beacuse that's a different topic.
 

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It seems reasonable to ban the burka since it is a common ruse of terrorists to hide bombs under them. Iran has just suffered from such a tactic and Europe is no stranger to terror either.

I'm not a big fan of government limiting peoples freedom so perhaps it should only be banned for a number of years? Perhaps by giving the dictate a to live clause.
 

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It seems reasonable to ban the burka since it is a common ruse of terrorists to hide bombs under them. Iran has just suffered from such a tactic and Europe is no stranger to terror either.
Yeah and we've all heard the rumours of Hutterites stealing microwaves from Wal-Mart under their dresses.
 

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It seems reasonable to ban the burka since it is a common ruse of terrorists to hide bombs under them. Iran has just suffered from such a tactic and Europe is no stranger to terror either.

I'm not a big fan of government limiting peoples freedom so perhaps it should only be banned for a number of years? Perhaps by giving the dictate a to live clause.

You can hide a bomb in a duffle bag.

Do we ban them?

In fact, let's ban everything you can hide a bomb in.:roll:
 

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Yeah and we've all heard the rumours of Hutterites stealing microwaves from Wal-Mart under their dresses.

I haven't but that would seem a lot less serious than a bombing.

I'm not a big fan of religious freedom so that card is unconvincing to me. If a religion is demonstratively peaceful that is one thing but if it violent and advocates violence that is another thing completely (Christianity, Islam Judaism). Even a religion where radical factions exist then its freedom could be legitimately limited IMO, since it is, from the historic record, easy to show how small radical movements can become large ones. It is the responsibility of wish thinkers to convince sensible people that they're not a threat. It is not the responsibility of free thinkers to accept whatever goofy idea has been dreamed up of late as reasonable and something to be tolerated; such a thing is utter foolishness.