The burka is not a religious symbol, it's a political and patriarchal symbol, it has more to do with tribal culture than with faith. I can't recognise it as just a garment like a kilt or pants.
Even if you regard it as a symbol for a religion. Imo the freedom of religion is one of the "soft" basic rights. It becomes superseded by the right of self-determination. I agree that most women who wear it don't do it out of their own free will - when you are brainwashed you also don't have free will.
Dressing modest is a total different thing, but nobody can tell me that somebody wears a black burka voluntarily when it's 30° C outside.
However the whole talk and action about the ban is nothing but a fight against the symptoms, not the root of the problem. The real problem are men who have such low self-esteem that they want to hide their women and chain them to themselves. Or those who are so sick that they assume that they have no self control and jump onto the next women who doesn't hide her female features.
Maybe those nuts should wear horse blinkers instead of forcing their women to wear a sack.
This offends me as a man who appreciates women, that those morons want to put every men into the same category.
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