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RE: Birkini Ban - How can a supposedly free country tell women they must wear less?
This kind of thing creates domestic terror, domestic here meaning in the home. Forcing people to break Sharia Law will create violence within Muslim communities, according to Islam the community has a duty to enforce Sharia. This Sharia enforcement often takes very violent forms, even in western countries, so actions like this will have negative effects both for the west and for Islam.
Not sure about that.
And if true, even more reason to keep violent muslims in the middle east away from the peaceful centres of western civilization.
You can't filter out violent people unless they point themselves out somehow.
Nailed it @tommyboyle! While I agree with many of the statements made by others regarding the abuse of power by the state, that is not, in my opinion, the most important factor in this particular case. The French are very conscious of their culture and work diligently to define what that culture is, how it should be practiced, and the penalties for 'cultural' encroachment. Muslims, by religious law, have requirements that are in direct conflict with French customs, law, and cultural norms. It is also important, not to put to fine a point on it, that saying 'sharia law' is to say the same thing twice - a redundancy - the word sharia means law. So we have a conflict that pits a very modern society and culture against a medieval mindset and culture - to be a bit sarcastic; What could go wrong? Stating this as a case of the state against the practice of wearing a particular item of clothing ignores the larger conflict. It is, at the least, somewhat disingenuous to attempt to make this case without also making reference to the larger cultural conflict. So, I am not saying that French authorities are approaching this issue correctly, I'm saying that to ignore the larger case invites hypocrisy. Bottom line, Islam needs a reformation. Until that happens it will be in conflict in any country that does not practice sharia.