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If you’re against governments forcing women to wear burqas or hijabs then you should be against governments banning women from wearing them too

I’m sure most of you know about France’s burqa ban, but did you know that they passed a bill to ban girls under 18 from wearing hijabs in public?

Just as I’m against religious authoritarianism, I can’t stand this breed of enforced secularism. Do I like hijabs/burqas/niqabs? No, which is why I’ll never wear one, but do I think other women should be banned from expressing their Muslim faith by wearing one? Hell no!

I also take issue with the fact that ALL religious symbols are banned in schools, you can’t even wear your favorite cross or Star of David necklace. And yarmulkes are out of the question. How can you be for separation of church and state and yet stifle people’s freedom of religious expression?
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Graylight · 51-55, F
I oppose extremism in government of any kind. When you represent only one side of a situation, you can never fully understand or manage it as a whole.

I also believe anyone not involved in the wearing of burkas and hijabs as a daily part of religious life has no say in this conversation. As a white, Anglo-Saxon American, I can't understand the complexities and nuances of the issue the way people who live this lifestyle can.

This really all comes down to us and them. Whether you're the Taliban, Palestine, American soldiers or Russia. We all simply struggle for control, power and land.

Those who speak so vehemently against all this religious oppression and extremism might take care. Installing Sharia law bears little difference to attempting and overthrow of a legitimate election and a subsequent insurrection when that didn't work. Almost every last one of them will cite Jesus's name and the Bible right after Trump's. They campaign for legislation based on moral and religious objections. They call for policies and consequences of failing to act along those religious lines. They seek to mandate where religious symbolism and text should appear, whether it be on government grounds or in the classroom.

I didn't ask for Sharia law and I haven't asked for evangelical law. Live and let live.
blackdude · 31-35, M
@Graylight this is so dumb, never heard of the divide between church and state?
Graylight · 51-55, F
@blackdude Please explain it to me, I'm fascinated by what your concept of it is.
blackdude · 31-35, M
@Graylight you should kiss your bothhands you were born in the west, no instead lawyas complain how opppressed your are. compairing christianity to islam, thats just dumb. christianity isnt forcedfed to anyone anymore for a long time. islam controls your whole life. using "sharia law" and "live and let live" in 1 sentence,thats just really dumb.
Graylight · 51-55, F
@blackdude So then, you can't outline for me the concept of church and state.

School curriculums are "force-fed" to children highlighting creationism and in cities, counties and states across this country there are mandates for introductory prayer, mottos and printed material. The 10 Commandments and other Christian symbolism stands in the public areas of legal and government. Public officials are overwhelmingly Christian and protests break out when there's an exception. Legislation is based on purely religious Christian principles and medical decisions may sometimes be dictated by an overwhelming Christian desire to treat others badly.

Are we Sharia in the US under any religion? No, nor did I say we were. I was addressing those who condemn religious leadership while at the same time demanding it under a different banner.

What I wasn't doing was speaking to the ill informed.
blackdude · 31-35, M
@Graylight compairing christianuty with islam, is like compairing apples and oranges, living in a religious region or country isnt the same as islam being forcefed to everyone in islam countries and islam community's
Graylight · 51-55, F
@blackdude I'm sorry, what's your experience with Islam again? And your training in Theology or the Christian Bible?

And again, no one ever even implied those two things were the same.