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Women should be free to wear the burqa : Comments
By Pip Hinman, published 29/11/2010Wearing the burqa raises complicated questions of human rights.
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I don't see how your opinion is less 'black-and-white' than mine or most others here. That's okay. We don't want people to fence sit. Don't worry about disagreeing with me. I'm quite used to you doing that.
I don't think I was confusing the two laws, the prohibition against facial coverings and that against female circumcision. I know they are quite different. But their commonality is that these laws are both sometimes (wrongly) perceived as being attacks directed towards a religion.
My overall point is that it is normal and expected that a society will codify into law its standards and values, especially those that uphold the wellbeing and integrity of each person.
Certain countries wish to enforce stricter standards of modesty. In the West we value the equality of both sexes and encourage their full and unashamed participation in society.