I 100% support this rule, and like corvax, I hope this makes it through all of Europe.
- First of all I found it offending that some foreign fantasy religion can use full-face-covering clothing while this is forbidden for me as a regular atheist. As a kid I used to wear these balaclavas, and when I got older it was not allowed anymore....understandable, since people with bad intentions can misuse the hiding of identity.
- Second, if only 5% of the women who wear these things does so because they are forced, this law has a use. It's well known and researched that the usage of the Niqaab is often because of pressure from peers and family, not by own initiative or willingness.
- Third, I fully support any law that will prevent any form of extreme islamism (and the Niqaab is right up there) in my country. It's influence is spreading like a cancer all over the European continent because we allowed too much, way too much freedom in the past. Religion should be chained, and confined to the purely personal space. As the saying goes : '
Use religion like your dick - don't show it in public and don't shuv it in under age children'.
- Fourth, it's not like this rule is so harsh. In Turkey it is completely forbidden to wear any kind of head coverage (not only niqaab or the simpler hijad hair cover) in public institutions and among many jobs. Turkey is a modern islam state - compared to the others anyways - so why should we not implement similar rules? (this one is more strict, I know).
- Fifth, even when you look at their own
fable holy book, it makes NO MENTION of a niqaab or even hijad coverage of women. What it does mention, is that the wives of the prophet started to wear a niqaab-like garment five years before mohammeds death. In all other texts there is clear statement that women should 'cover their female curves in a dignifieng way'.
WITHOUT the mention of a head scarf/dress/coverage. The followign hadith shows that :
"Ayesha (R) reported that Asmaa the daughter of Abu Bakr (R) came to the Messenger of Allah (S) while wearing thin clothing. He approached her and said: 'O Asmaa! When a girl reaches the menstrual age, it is not proper that anything should remain exposed except this and this. He pointed to the face and hands." (Abu Dawood)"
How far do you want to go with tolerating some cultural or religious excessiveness ? Do we have to allow the (forcefull without exception) circumcision of girls ? It is forbidden in many Islam countries, but in Holland you can send your daughter to a clinic and it is done for free - payed by the insurance! Sick practice.
Or do we have to allow - when not talking about muslims - other people from other cultures to still eat human flesh, just because it is an integral part of their 'amazonian tribe culture'.
Please, once something so obviously comes in the reign of the misused, misusable or contradictionary with our _own_ system, or _own_ culture, our _own_ laws and our _own_ people I think it is time to put a halt to it. Simple.
For the people that respond and dont see the harm in a niqaab - it is not only the thing itself (the fact it is forbidden to cover your face should go for everyone, without exception) but what it stands for that people dispise - extreme islam. If you don't live in a neighborhood with a lot of islam youth you have ZERO idea what it is, what it does. It is a very nasty, scary religion that lags some 800 years behind christianity in its current tamed form. It still has to undergo many of the revolutionary changes that make it compatible with the modern society and make it more self-regulating, tolerant and harmless.
The Islam is a religion that is still in the expansionist, 'we against the world', 'everyone must be converted' kind of mentality the christians had during the Crusades in 1000-1300. If we do not impose strict rules on it's extremes right now, it will overtake us in a hundred year by sheer islamic population - the one with the heighest birthrate in Europe, twice or more that of native europeans. Democracy will allow them to change back by majority vote all of the rules we impose on them now, so why the worry? It's only temporary
My $0.01 from someone who grew up in Turkey, and should know a thing or two about the 'mild' side of this religion...
