Denmark's Burqa Ban Has Gone Into Effect

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355. I have to laugh at all the MEN defending women's "right" to wear those oppressive garments,

that are not required by the Koran or by Muslim religious leaders, and are even banned from the Grand Mosque.

They are hot, they are stuffy, they restrict vision, and they put women at risk of tripping. They prevent two sisters or best friends from even identifying each other on the street, unless they are accompanied by other identifiable people.

The point of them is to isolate women and to keep them from taking their full place in society. I applaud Denmark and the other countries that have banned them.

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/raheel-raza/niqab-burka-ban-canada_b_8189112.html

As a Muslim mother who never saw a niqab when I was growing up in Karachi, Pakistan, I am astonished to see Canada's judiciary caving in to Islamists who have nothing but contempt for Canada's values of gender equality.

I write this as a Muslim Canadian who does not have any specific political leanings.

But in the 25 years I have called Canada home, I have seen a steady rise of Muslim women being strangled in the pernicious black tent that is passed off to naïve and guilt-ridden white, mainstream Canadians as an essential Islamic practice.

The niqab and burka have nothing to do with Islam.

They're the political flags of the Muslim Brotherhood, ISIS, the Taliban, al-Qaida and Saudi Arabia.

Now I learn I have not only to fight the medieval, theocratic adherents of my faith for a safe space for myself, I have to battle the Federal Court of Canada as well, which has come out on the side of these face masks.

SNIP

https://torontosun.com/2013/09/17/west-should-ban-niqab/wcm/40f1438a-2124-4691-962d-a268164f5b5e

At the core of the cases involving both the accused “D” in Britain and complainant “NS” in Canada, is the women’s claim that masking their face is their religious obligation and as such a fundamental right.

Nothing could be further from reality, though no non-Muslim has as yet had the courage to call the bluff of Islamists who employ the niqab (and burka) as a political symbol, a sort of a middle finger to the West.

As the Muslim Canadian Congress said in 2009, “there is no requirement in the Qur’an for Muslim women to cover their faces. Invoking religious freedom to conceal one’s identity and promote a political ideology is disingenuous.”

No less an authority than Egypt’s late Sheikh Mohamed Tantawi, dean of al-Azhar university, stated the niqab was merely a cultural tradition and that it had no connection to Islam or the Qur’an.

If there is any doubt about the religiosity of the niqab and burka, one should take a look at the holiest place for Muslims, the grand mosque in Mecca, the Ka’aba.

For more than 1,400 years, Muslim men and women have prayed in what we believe is the House of God, and for all those centuries, female visitors have been explicitly prohibited from covering their faces.