'Feminists' are planning a protest about the Burkini ban in France

[Burney]

Would you legally force women to go topless on a beach, even if it might reflect your personal aesthetic preferences? Or would you respect their choice to wear what they choose? This isn't about face-covering, which is a completely different matter.

Nothing wrong with this outfit imo:



OTOH there is to my mind definitely something wrong with a law that forces women to take off their clothes.

a/ Their 'choice' is not being freely made
b/ There is everything wrong with that outfit, as it is emblematic of a regressive, violent and dangerous form of Islam that is currently killing people all over the west.

[George Morrell's Tache]

a/ Their 'choice' is not being freely made
b/ There is everything wrong with that outfit, as it is emblematic of a regressive, violent and dangerous form of Islam that is currently killing people all over the west.

1. How do you know?
2. Don't be silly.

[Burney]

1. How do you know?
2. Don't be silly.

1/ I know because I know how the strictures of Islamic society work in relation to the male domination of women. Did you not notice the way that the Taliban and ISIS on taking anywhere over immediately insist on extreme clothing restrictions and an end to education for women? Do you imagine that's just a coincidence or do you maybe think it might be part of a pattern of extreme systematic social control of men over women within Islam - of which ridiculous garb like this is just one manifestation? Any woman telling you that she's wearing this because she wants to is simply a victim of the extreme social and religious conditioning of her culture. To find out how 'free her choice was, ask her how her menfolk would react if she turned up to the beach in a bikini.
2/ Nothing silly about it. These garments are simply an attempt to normalise a backwards thread of Islamic thought whose roots are exactly the same as those that currently feed global Islamic terrorism. Making that link may make you uncomfortable, but it's true.