# France's "burqa ban":  will it just drive muslim woman into seclusion?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [April 11, 2011, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frances-burqa-ban-will-it-just-drive-muslim-woman-into-seclusion/577994 "2011-04-11T19:57:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![NiceGuyJack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/niceguyjack/32/3069_2.png) [@NiceGuyJack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NiceGuyJack)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2011, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frances-burqa-ban-will-it-just-drive-muslim-woman-into-seclusion/577994/141 "2011-04-16T06:47:13Z")

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> [@CitizenPained](#):
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> Anti-extremism is another word for _fundamentalist_ Islam. It becomes anti-Islam when you forbid practices that have no negative effect on you.
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> Hmm. Extremist Jews aren’t extremist Jews. They’re Orthodox Jews. Should we ban women from dressing a certain way or make Orthodox men shake the hands of women who aren’t their relatives or spouses? Should we ban Kashrut supervision in factories? Prohibit synagogues from being within 10 blocks for Ground Zero?
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> Do we prohibit Focus on the Family from publishing their newsletters? Should we force Christians into pre-marital sex? Put hamburgers on the plate of every Hindu in France?

Jews haven’t historically been dangerous to society. To be brutally honest, it’s been the other way around especially when the Catholics were in charge.  
Mind you Jews are doing a hell of a job catching up in the way they are treating the Palestinians.  
In Europe, you just don’t expect a Jew to blow things up, or murder film directors and cartoonists for a difference in opinion. Does it warrant a ban on the burqa? Probably not, but then there are multiple issues for why they banned it in France.

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**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2011, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frances-burqa-ban-will-it-just-drive-muslim-woman-into-seclusion/577994/142 "2011-04-16T07:41:10Z")

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> [@NiceGuyJack](#):
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> Jews haven’t historically been dangerous to society.

That’s not what others have claimed…:o

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> To be brutally honest, it’s been the other way around especially when the Catholics were in charge.

Sing it, sister. And the Lutherans. Don’t forget them.

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> Mind you \*\*Jews \*\*are doing a hell of a job catching up in the way they are treating the Palestinians.

I’ll let you open another thread on that one. No Jewper (Get it? Doper? Jew?) has anything to do with Israeli foreign relations policy, thanks.

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> In Europe, you just don’t expect a Jew to blow things up, or murder film directors and cartoonists for a difference in opinion.

Paris ain’t no King David.

Also, I’m pretty sure militant Muslims are blowing shit up for a little more than “difference in opinion”.

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> **Does it warrant a ban on the burqa? Probably not,**

Okay, then.

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> but then there are multiple issues for why they banned it in France.

Islamophobia?

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