[English subtitles] Should Germany ban the burka? (part 2) do you know what freedom is?
Channel: Anna Xu
Date: 2017-06-05

On September 12, 2016, German debate TV show hart aber fair posed this question: should there be a burka ban in Germany?

89% of Germans support at least a partial ban on the full-face veil, or burka.  CDU (Christian Democratic Union) politician Julia Klöckner tells Green party politician Claudia Roth that she is not a good advocate for feminism because she focuses more on symbols rather than actual issues. She says that it doesn't matter whether a few women or many wear the burqa in Germany -- any suppression of rights is wrong. Muslim writer Khola Maryam Hübsch had asserted that she wears the hijab for freedom. Klöckner asks her if she even knows what freedom is.