French Senate votes to ban Islamic full veil in public

tater · 09-15-10, 05:42 PM

Banning stuff like this seems to fit well within European norms. They ban political parties, even political symbols in games, right?

So I can see the point of it in France.

In the US, this would obviously be unacceptable on the part of the GOVERNMENT in most instances. The only exceptions might be for official ID, license photos, etc. One standard. Schools (public) routinely ban certain clothes due to gangs, I see no difference in banning disguises there, too.

For people at large, it's clearly not the American way to ban a dress code. That said, I think it should be fine for individuals to discriminate in general as they wish (though I think the government should not do business with a business that does so). So if a store or restaurant has a sign that says, "No shirt, no shoes, no service" and decides to add "No masks or face-coverings allowed" I'm 100% fine with that. The solution is for us to treat people who decided to behave this way (dress like criminals in masks) properly as individuals.

Women dressing like this in the west are being impolite. Just as it is impolite for a westerner to wear immodest clothing in muslim countries, it is impolite to wear a face mask in the west. Oddly, they claim the goal is modesty (I think it is political), but women in such outfits get MORE attention. They don't disappear, they are screaming "look at me!"

So it should be legal, but they should be treated as the impolite people they are.

09-15-10, 05:42 PM	#10
tater Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Mexico, USA Posts: 9,023 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 2	Banning stuff like this seems to fit well within European norms. They ban political parties, even political symbols in games, right? So I can see the point of it in France. In the US, this would obviously be unacceptable on the part of the GOVERNMENT in most instances. The only exceptions might be for official ID, license photos, etc. One standard. Schools (public) routinely ban certain clothes due to gangs, I see no difference in banning disguises there, too. For people at large, it's clearly not the American way to ban a dress code. That said, I think it should be fine for individuals to discriminate in general as they wish (though I think the government should not do business with a business that does so). So if a store or restaurant has a sign that says, "No shirt, no shoes, no service" and decides to add "No masks or face-coverings allowed" I'm 100% fine with that. The solution is for us to treat people who decided to behave this way (dress like criminals in masks) properly as individuals. Women dressing like this in the west are being impolite. Just as it is impolite for a westerner to wear immodest clothing in muslim countries, it is impolite to wear a face mask in the west. Oddly, they claim the goal is modesty (I think it is political), but women in such outfits get MORE attention. They don't disappear, they are screaming "look at me!" So it should be legal, but they should be treated as the impolite people they are.