Germany: Burka ban to be proposed in security clampdown

[Squinch]

127. But you can distinguish it from culture. Just as we can, do and should distinguish the white

supremacist culture's hate from anything that calls itself Christian, we can and should also distinguish the cultural hatred of women that gave rise to the burqa from anything that calls itself Muslim.

I see what you are saying: the local culture informs the religious interpretation.

But when those local cultural mores are not compatible with civilized society, we have never hesitated to disallow them. Just as we don't encourage Maoris to practice their traditional cannibalism in modern society, we should not accept the acts of women-hating people that erase the identities of the women among them in modern society.

I simply do not accept that, in order not to be accused of xenophobia, I need to smile and nod my encouragement while a group works to erase the identities of the women in that group.