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another reason to hate France!
another reason to hate France!
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[CENTER]Aannddyy on msn wrote:
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DamnImGood;1062835947 wrote:
I'm definitely an idiot.
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RollinRightInuit wrote:
Well, personally I don't have any problem with France, and this doesn't give me one, but since you're a female Muslim who lives there.... oh wait....
To be honest, in a lot of primarily Muslim countries, women would be arrested for not wearing a Burka, regardless of their nationality or religion, so if France want to impose a similar law, they have a right to it. At least the French legal system is better than countries where petty theft is punished by cutting off an appendage. And no, I'm not racist, this stuff actually happens.
I just don't see why a law regarding dress, that doesn't affect you in any way, in a country across an ocean from you, should warrant hatred. Especially rich coming from someone living in the nation that brought us the Jim Crow laws, and delving back to earlier American history, the signs in shops and restaurants during the famine that read "No pets, no Irish". The French are banning a veil, not an entire nationality or race. The article even says it effects less than 2,000 women in their entire population. And chances are people will still wear them anyway with nothing really being done about it.
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David! wrote:
French food is yummy
And...what Lisa said. The media is portraying this as discrimination against the Islamic faith, when it isn't. If you look at some of the other French laws on the books, they don't allow Christian symbols in public schools (or any religion for that matter.) Secularism is different from religious intolerance.
jerry wrote:
It's their customs and how they were brought up to be. It's as if Britain all of a sudden said Christmas is banned. or t shirts and pants are banned.
It shouldnt be banned but looking it at a bright side though, most of them got sexy eyes, it'd be nice to see whats underneath the veil
[CENTER]Aannddyy on msn wrote:
hye, i jstu red ur post in the dibates and diskushon bord lol
DamnImGood;1062835947 wrote:
I'm definitely an idiot.
RollinRightInuit wrote:
To be honest, in a lot of primarily Muslim countries, women would be arrested for not wearing a Burka, regardless of their nationality or religion, so if France want to impose a similar law, they have a right to it.
At least the French legal system is better than countries where petty theft is punished by cutting off an appendage. And no, I'm not racist, this stuff actually happens.
I just don't see why a law regarding dress, that doesn't affect you in any way, in a country across an ocean from you, should warrant hatred.
Especially rich coming from someone living in the nation that brought us the Jim Crow laws, and delving back to earlier American history, the signs in shops and restaurants during the famine that read "No pets, no Irish".
Dr.Carter wrote:
That's an extremely flawed way of thinking that is responsible for a ton of problems in the world today. "If someone else is doing it, then I can do it to". France, and really all developed nations, are supposed to hold themselves to a higher standard than the repressive Middle Eastern nations you are talking about. It's not a legitimate excuse to look at their backwards legal system and justify the faults in our own, it's just stupid.
You can have a burgeoning economy, a massive population, and so forth, but that doesn't make you a developed country. Look at China. What makes you a first world nation is your legal system, your standard of living, etc. If we start passing laws like this, then how are we any better than the Pakistans of the world? The simple answer is, we aren't. Bottom line is, laws like this are a slippery slope. Today it's only burqas, but how long before France starts banning mosques, then the entire religion, and then Arabic people entirely? It's just plain xenophobia, which is ironic coming from a nation that likes to tout itself as being so progressive.
The overall quality of their legal system is no excuse to have a repressive law on the books. With legal systems, you have to strive for perfection, you can't just pass a few good laws and claim that they make up for the bad ones.
I'm really surprised at the ideologies you are touting. Because it's not happening in my backyard, I shouldn't care about it? I guess I don't need to care about hunger in the Sudan, blood diamonds in Sierra Leone, etc. As long as I don't have to see it, I shouldn't care right?
That's just plain stupid. Neither of the examples you listed have been pertinent for decades now. No nation has a complete history that they're entirely proud of, but the key is to not linger on the past and instead to focus on the future. At least you don't see laws like this being passed nationwide in America today, which is the important thing. America is not perfect, and we have made some mistakes in the past, but that doesn't completely negate our ability to offer our opinion of another nation. Especially considering that the person you are addressing was most likely less than a single celled organism when the acts you mentioned were widespread.
[CENTER]Aannddyy on msn wrote:
hye, i jstu red ur post in the dibates and diskushon bord lol
DamnImGood;1062835947 wrote:
I'm definitely an idiot.