No ordinary garment
Subtitle: the burqa and the pursuit of tolerance
By: Peter Kurti
Series: Research report -- RR5; CIS research report -- 5
Publisher: Centre for Independent Studies
Published: 2015
Place of publication: St Leonards, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 19
ISBN-13: 9781922184504
Subjects: Religious tolerance; Toleration; Burqas (Islamic clothing); Hijab (Islamic clothing)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Executive summary; title: Introduction : can the secular-religious compact hold?; title: Multiculturalism, identity politics, and threats to religious liberty; title: No limits on religious liberty?; title: De-coding the burqa; title: Ban burqas in parliament?; title: The burqa and the demands of citizenship; title: Eweida versus Azmi : the limits of tolerance and equality; title: Two arguments : for and against banning the burqa; title: The amenity of public space argument; title: The argument from equality under the law; title: Cultural relativism and reverse zero-tolerance; title: Upholding the integrity of religious belief; title: Coda : a burqa ban is un-Australian; title: but so is Islamism.