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I think it´s right that burka should be banned, especially the saudi arabia/taliban style ones! However, I don´t think that all women are forced by their husbands to wear it, although their husbands surely enjoy their freedom and their wifes´ imprisonment. It´s not the burka that´s the root of the problem, it´s the overbearing, present everywhere sexism, objectification of women, patriarchal values that we are all brainwashed with from childhood. It is not truly liberating when women are forced to wear something, although I agree that some limits have to be set.
I totally agree with you.... I used to believe women did not have a place in society unless they take of that headscarf (either forced by families or husbands) and those baggy clothes (specially the black ones, and the veil..) But now living in Dubai, where you can see women from everywhere around the world living in peace, in different positions in companies or government jobs, and making even some friends, I realised that:
1. They are not necessarily forced by somebody, but choose for themselves.
2. They can be and are as intelligent, humorous and social as us.
3. The burqa is sometimes the national dress code.
In my conversations, they told me that they feel fully naked when they don´t wear a hijab (a head scarf), they are bullied in Europe, US, Canada and Australia (mainly), while every other person can enjoy their choice of clothing, wearing bikinis, or not wearing at all.
And I do believe while we support freedom in belief and speech, we have double standards when people believe in something that we don´t.
Is that fair?? To allow someone to wear a tiny bikini and not to allow someone a burquini (which covers the body and the hair)??? And why don´t we strip off the nuns as well, they are fully covered too?????
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