How do the europeans want to justify burka (burqa?) ban?

[Peremensoe]

@Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party

Most European countries already have provision for banning masks and helmets that obscure the face in public places. I think it’s still illegal to wear IRA-style balaclavas in the UK, for instance, when out in public.

So, are police exempt?

[Paul_in_Qatar]

As long as they are not members of a minority group or a woman.

[eenerms]

I would suggest you read the book by Fatima Menissi, The Veil and the Male Elite: A Femisits Interpretation of a Women’s Rights in Islam It might answer some of your questions about the veil and whether or not women are property according to Islam. (BTW they are not)

[ivan_astikov]

@eenerms

I would suggest you read the book by Fatima Menissi, The Veil and the Male Elite: A Femisits Interpretation of a Women’s Rights in Islam It might answer some of your questions about the veil and whether or not women are property according to Islam. (BTW they are not)

Snipped from the Amazon reviews on said book.

I find it interesting that another reader found, within the pages of this book, justification for a Muslim woman wearing a piece of cloth to cover her head. My perception of Ms. Mernissi’s views is quite the opposite. What she was trying to say throughout the whole book can be summed up in one of the final questions she asks in her conclusion: “How did the tradition succeed in transforming the Muslim woman into that submissive, marginal creature who buries herself and only goes out into the world timidly and huddled in her veils?” Mernissi then questions why a Muslim man needs such a “mutilated companion.” These ideas are what make this book so important.

[Bam_Boo_Gut]

@Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party

Most European countries already have provision for banning masks and helmets that obscure the face in public places. I think it’s still illegal to wear IRA-style balaclavas in the UK, for instance, when out in public.

I have a dim memory of this and was trying to find a cite … not coming up with much though

Balaclava (clothing)

“British Police in Kent confiscated the War on Terror board game partly due to the inclusion of a balaclava. Police said it “could be used to conceal someone’s identity or could be used in the course of a criminal act”.[7]”