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By Alice Aslan, published 20/7/2009The West needs to understand that Muslim women don’t need a nanny and can look after themselves.
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"This attitude is embedded in a worldview based on hectic activism of saving and liberating others that requires a constant supply of victims."
I agree, when people form positions on issues, it is generally saying more about their worldview than about the topic of debate. Few people actually take the time to study and understand the complexities of a subject unless they are a serious academic like yourself.
Politicians unfortunately do not need to play to an audience of academics. Their audience is a wider public many of whom hold shared worldviews that can easily be manipulated by their leaders; including the one you have encapsulated in the quote above, which no doubt leaves most people with a nice warm feeling inside, satisfied that they are on the side of good and right.
Yet all around us every day in what ever society there are so many instances of individuals not respecting others or each other; which is what you are asking political leaders and others to give to Muslim women who choose to wear the burqua: respect; along with equal opportunity and the power to make their own decisions.