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The Daily Show Takes On The Ironies Of The Burqa Ban |
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It kind of creeped me out. :(
07/02/09
"We find that the burqa has been used as a tool by men to control the appearance and expression of women. So to free women from the oppression of the men who mandate that they wear it, we will take the power TO mandate it away from the men and ban it."
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My point is that just because men have largely interpreted the Quran for centuries doesn't make the burqua somehow not a choice, or an illegitimate one.
And, frankly, to pretend to empower these women by invalidating their religious choices -- many of them thought-out for years -- is about as dis-empowering of women as one can get.
07/02/09
If you want to get Muslim women out of the burqa and integrated into French society (which they don't, but claim to) set up programs that go into their communities to teach the French (if they don't speak it, which most probably do), job skills, and cultural enrichment rather than push a law that tells them "This culture does not tolerate you and you do not belong."
07/02/09
I think Schaal did a really fantastic job with this, even if the point she was making was a limited one. I'm just happy when she's on. Last night had Sam Bee, too, which made it an extremely rare ladies night on the Daily Show.
07/02/09
Baconnaise, now - that's another story.
07/02/09
Next it will be the oppression of the pants! the suffocation of the socks! the sacrilegious skirt! Heck! Nudity is the freedom from all clothing expression, and is the symbol of true democracy!
07/02/09
Second, and this may be unpopular, but I can understand the attempt to ban the burqa. I really don't think it (vs just a hijab, which I think is totally compatible with feminism, though I myself would never wear it) is compatible with liberated women. But forcing people to be "liberated" is never going to work out.
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