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Thread #129162   Message #2898137
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
01-May-10 - 02:43 PM
Thread Name: BS: Muslim veil ban in Belgium
Subject: RE: BS: Muslim veil ban in Belgium
It's a pretty safe bet that any kind of ban like this against a custom of a minority will in practice be felt as oppressive, and those most strongly in favour of it will include those who intend it that way.

It's true enough that some of the women who follow this custom will not be doing so as a matter of free choice, but because of pressure by others.   The same is also true of the more extreme examples of attire at the opposite extreme. The underlying sickness is a social pattrern of coercion.

You don't get rid of a disease by legislating against its symptoms.