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Protests Against French Burqa Ban

 
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beck's



Joined: 02 Aug 2006

PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:27 am    Post subject: Protests Against French Burqa Ban Reply with quote

Here is a good article on the French Burqa ban which went into effect today.

The various forms of oppressive garb are explained with drawings. The fines are also laid out.

Seems like the Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys are getting some gonads.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1375654/France-burka-ban-First-woman-pictured-openly-flouting-new-law.html
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geldedgoat



Joined: 05 Mar 2009

PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Insanity.
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BoholDiver



Joined: 03 Oct 2009
Location: Canada

PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 5:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Though I am outspoken on my dislike for Islam, I don't agree with France on this one.
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On the other hand



Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue

PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 5:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I liked this pro-burka protest a bit better.
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NohopeSeriously



Joined: 17 Jan 2011
Location: The Christian Right-Wing Educational Republic of Korea

PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 6:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Those Wahhabi Muslims in France can always move to the UK. Not a big deal.
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northway



Joined: 05 Jul 2010

PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 6:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Considering how few women in the country actually use this type of veil (1,900), it strikes me as a pointless gesture meant to make it clear that they are unwelcome more than anything else.
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ZIFA



Joined: 23 Feb 2011
Location: Dici che il fiume..Trova la via al mare

PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 6:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

On the other hand wrote:
I liked this pro-burka protest a bit better.


lol !
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Eddy24



Joined: 13 Nov 2010

PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 1:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Considering how few women in the country actually use this type of veil (1,900), it strikes me as a pointless gesture meant to make it clear that they are unwelcome more than anything else.


I agree.

Ultimately isn't it your own right if you want to wear a face mask. I mean it's not just islamic veils and burqas which are banned. Even a mask like this is banned in public .

Halloween must suck in france.
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travel zen



Joined: 22 Feb 2005
Location: Good old Toronto, Canada

PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 5:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quote:
On the other hand wrote:
I liked this pro-burka protest a bit better.


lol !



Sweet !
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visitorq



Joined: 11 Jan 2008

PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 2:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

France is not a free country.
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rollo



Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: China

PostPosted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 6:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeah i object on principle that a government should not be able to tell people how to dress. I was not aware that anyone thought that France was a free country.
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Ya-ta Boy



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994

PostPosted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 7:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

northway wrote:
Considering how few women in the country actually use this type of veil (1,900), it strikes me as a pointless gesture meant to make it clear that they are unwelcome more than anything else.


That seems pretty much accurate.

You can overreact to someone's difference and make a big point of it and more or less force them into a defense of the practice, or you can just sit back for a month or two and go, 'ahhhh' and go on with your life. The 'difference' then begins to fade out since no one makes a point of it.

As I said a couple of years ago here, the French would have been a lot further on with assimilation if they had called up the newest Moslem in the neighborhood and said, "Hey, my daughter is hot to trot and has no morals whatsoever. Didn't I see your son drooling over her down in the market yesterday?"
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Eddy24



Joined: 13 Nov 2010

PostPosted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 2:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

where is there true freedom these days?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTOQhPd2Xh4
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tukmax



Joined: 06 Jul 2010

PostPosted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 6:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"What you resist, persists."

This will just have the opposite effect. Instead of toning down radical Islam it will instead just stoke the flames of extremism even more as a reaction.

So it is ironic that the people who enacted this ban to stop one thing will actually just create more of what they dislike.
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visitorq



Joined: 11 Jan 2008

PostPosted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 11:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

rollo wrote:
I was not aware that anyone thought that France was a free country.

Well then they should just throw the "liberty, equality, fraternity" slogan into the trash and be done with it...
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