Denmark bans wearing the burqa in public

[bitterross]

280. While Islamaphobia may be the root of it. I still think it's a good thing.

I read the article and wasn't surprised to find the law was proposed by the center-right. That gives your supposition of Islamaphobia 101 great credibility.

Sometimes though, something good comes out of something bad. When bad people (the Islamaphobes) do something they think is tailored to insult and subvert the followers of Islam, in this case, they are shooting themselves in the foot at the same time. They are empowering women. Not usually a goal of those on the right.

I fervently disagree with the statement in the article from Amnesty International:

“If the intention of this law was to protect women’s rights it fails abjectly,” Amnesty International’s Europe Director Gauri van Gulik said. “Instead, the law criminalises women for their choice of clothing and in so doing flies in the face of those freedoms Denmark purports to uphold.”

I no more believe women freely choose to wear that clothing than I believe in Santa Claus. Note my use of the term freely. I have no doubt that many of the women affected will protest they are having their rights taken away and will say they choose to wear the traditional garb. Like the many intelligent, white women who voted for 45 in this country I think they are more bound to tradition and custom than to their own self-worth and sense of self apart from a patriarch society. Their choice is not made freely. It is still coerced, at least subconsciously, by male tradition and laws.