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Originally Posted by Eric
I have to agree that "legislating on the minituae of everyday life" is something that has just got to go. But ........etc etc a free society is not a simple mechanism; it is a process rather than a thing.The last thing Islamists ... as distinct from Muslims ... want is a free state. They want one as much as Walmart wants free enterprise. Face covering is a symbol of the Islamist state.
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As I posted before Eric,
The vast majority of the 1.4 million Muslim women in Britain do not even wear the face veil, as it is not considered a religious obligation. The tiny minority that do are probably happy to remove the veil when required.
One has to question though if their stance is really about religious freedom, or about making a political statement? The veilists that is.
This debate has now become so polarised that people who didn't care what Muslim women wore are now turning against the veil using myths and misinformation to bolster the argument.