Reply #75: We can and do tell women what to wear every day.

[riderinthestorm]

In virtually every western culture without being called bigots.

France has a strong tradition of church/state separation stemming from their own Revolution. Those "old men" even banned clerical collars in their Christian clergy in their long battle to define their own position. Their ban on religious symbols in schools and other public institutions is widely embraced and endorsed even by their Muslim patriots.

I find your analogy about walking around "naked" very enlightening in lieu of my other statements on this: Aboriginal women are banned from walking around "naked" in Western cultures even though it's their cultural and religiously mandated state of affairs. But nobody has a problem with that.

Here are the cultural relativists: denying a strong matriarchal "outfit" - toplessness. And embracing/defending the inherently patriarchal shroud: the burqa/niqab. It is a 'repressive, anti-feminine" cultural affectation and the West is right to debate it's place in our society.

The left should be unequivocal on this point: the burqa/niqab has no place in our society.

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