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The Orwellian Times Burqa Bans - No; Free Speech Bans - Yes by Phyllis Chesler Pajamas Media April 4, 2010 http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/722/the-orwellian-times Send Comment RSS Share: Excerpt: A Parliamentary committee in Belgium has recently voted to ban the burqa. The language of the ban is strategically neutral in terms of religion and ethnicity: it bans "face coverings," not "niqab" or the "burqa." As Christopher Caldwell wisely concluded in Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West, this is the only approach that might work, but I doubt that the full Parliament will approve this ban; and, if they do, I predict that Muslims, both men and women, as well as their Western accomplices, will don burqas as a form of "resistance" and sit in jail for a week or pay their fines. No doubt the European Union will ultimately find that such a ban violates human and religious rights. Read the complete original version of this item...
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