Here is a fact. Look at China, India, Japan, Europe, Russia, the U.S., South America, Africa, etc. how many women do you see covered from head to toe in a tent? What does that tell you (please use logic here)? Normal women do not cover themselves head to toe.
Evidence for your statement about normal women, please. Don't ask for logic if you aren't going to use it yourself.
Here is another fact. In which countries do women cover themselves from head to toe. Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia. Do you know how women are treated in those countries? What does that tell you?
A question not a fact, certainly not " another" fact as there have been none yet. Do you
know how women are treated in the countries where your 'normal' women live? Some well, some badly, some very, very badly. Nowhere are they treated well enough that they haven't started feminist movements because of male oppression. Why would men be different in Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia? Facts and evidence please. And remember the topic is a Belgian law taking away women's rights to decide how they dress, not stuff that might happen in Kabul.
If wearing a burqa is a religious requirement, then why do only a small minority of Muslim women wear it? Is it because they force to do so by their father, brother(s), husband and/or other males?
It isn't. Many people , including
Rockslinger, I believe have said so. But 'religious requirement' is a very elastic term. Lotsa Sikhs don't wear turbans, lotsa Jews go about uncovered, and my mother would
never have considered going to church without a hat. I think you really mean something like 'not mentioned in the Koran'. But how is that relevant to brutal men forcing a mode of dress on women they think of as property? That's inexcusible enough, just as the Belgian law is. Free people have a right to tehir own choices, religious or not.
What's stupid and pathetic about this burqa crap is that it completely ignores the bad guys who do bad things and 'solves' the non-problem by dictating to women.
This is a stupid dress code being discussed, not the defence of civilzation! If you believe in freedom and there's even one woman who wants to wear a burqa—she grew up that way and it makes her nervous not to, maybe she loves to be naked under it, who knows or cares—shouldn't we freedom loving westerners be defending her right to choose for herself?
And if she's being forced, shouldn't that be where we put the full weight of the law?
