burkas should be illegal in the United States

Belgium and France have banned the Burqa and the new Dutch government is considering doing the same. Critics have charged that the ban is religiously intolerant, some even claim that it’s intolerant of women, but the truth is that the Burqa is dangerous to women. Both those who wear it and those who don’t. Why? The Burka covers up abuse. According to the Quran a man can beat his wife if she does not submit. I'm sorry. That is wrong. That is not democracy. That is not protected by the Constitutipn of the United States. The Burka is the complete dishonoring of women, the covering of abuse, and a threat to the national security of the United States of America. In cases of domestic abuse, the Burqa doesn’t just isolate the woman, it also covers up evidence of the abuse. It gives the abuser the freedom to brutalize his partner without worrying that anyone will even notice. http://quran.com... The Quran says that men are unable to not rape a woman if she is sexually attractive and does not cover up. Really? Why can I resist? Am I the greatest sexually powerful man that has ever lived?!?!? Surely not.... The Quran gives a similar justification for a head to toe covering for women, “O Prophet! Tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks (veils) all over their bodies that they may thus be distinguished and not molested.” (Koran 33:59) Good God man... Women have rights. You don't like it? I don't care. You think women are inferior? I think YOU are inferior. There's the door. Don't hit it on the way out... * Civic Participation- The essence of a modern society is that it extends civic participation to everyone. Deliberately preventing an entire gender from participating in society as identifiable individuals is an assault on the democratic character of the state. * Individuals are recognizable through personal attributes. Remove those attributes and you remove the individuality as well. The Sahih Bukhari relates that one inspiration for the Burqa was that one of Mohammed’s followers was able to recognize one of his wives at night. The implication is that the Burqa is meant to prevent such recognition from taking place. Women are not meant to be recognized as individuals. Or to be empowered to make their own decisions. NOT OKAY... The Burqa is designed to impede interaction outside the home. The failure to be recognized as an individual is dehumanizing and deprives women of their role in civic life. NOT OKAY... * Countries where the Burqa is in wide use, have low rates of female civic participation. In Saudi Arabia women are not allowed to vote. In parts of Pakistan, women are not allowed to vote as well. In Afghanistan women were shunted into female only polling stations, or forced to vote by proxy through a male family member. NOT OKAY... The rise of such segregation in Europe would threaten the democratic character of the society. But should the Burqa become widespread, the status of some European women living in national capitals would begin to resemble those of Saudi and Pakistani women. NOT OKAY... * Segregation is Discrimination Purdah segregates women at homes and the Burqa segregates them in public. While the authorities cannot interfere with what people choose to do in their own homes—the public wearing of the Burqa is a statement that women are unequal and must be segregated. Such an attitude is an assault on the legal place of women in society. It imposes the norms of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia on the streets of Paris and London. Like a Klan march, it a dehumanizing and intimidating statement of bigotry against a segment of society. While in the United States, such marches are legal, in much of Europe they are not. If radicals are prevented from making public statements about the inferiority of races, why should they be permitted to assert the inferiority of a gender. “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other,” the Koran itself says. Replace ‘women’ with any race or religion, and a public assertion of such a thing would be cause for criminal proceedings. Correct? Delegating the segregation of the Burka on women in an institution of a bigoted creed that dehumanizes an entire gender. While Muslims are perfectly welcome to believe whatever they want, a public display that dehumanizes women as a gender by treating their faces as obscene, is an intolerant violation of the norms of civil society and a violation of the Constitution of the United States of America. * (Quran 2:223) "Your wives are a place of sowing of seed for you, so come to your place of cultivation however you wish and put forth righteousness!" Not okay... The Burka is a violation of the Constitution. The Burka kills womens' rights, and we have no declarative proof that these women simply accept the Burka...What if they do not? Women are about to lose their rights! http://youtu.be...