You have a point
more than most here I reckon. However the problem is primarily in the religious culture - that's what should be tackled. No one is actually forcing those French women to wear burkas, unless they are using illegal coercion.

I do accept that the situation is fucked and wince whenever I see that headgear.
(Fancy a weekend on my Raymondo Luxury Yacht?, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 20:35, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

There is probably both illegal coercion and the fear of being shunned by their
family and everything they know that is also a type of coercion.
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 20:39, Reply)

There are plenty of women
who willingly wear the veil as they believe it is right and proper for them to do so. I disagree entirely with them and think they are fucking retards, but if they want to do that then they should be allowed.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 20:46, Reply)

Ignorance is bliss for you.

( girlinthehole, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 20:49, Reply)

It's like you're reading a totally different reply to the one i've written.
I'll say it a third time.

You have the right to wear what you want. There are many muslim women who simply will not appear in public without a full veil, so by banning the veil you are effectively putting them under house arrest. Your views and my views about the stupidity of this has no relevance to their right to wear whatever they want to.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 20:53, Reply)

So we let it be then?

( girlinthehole, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 21:02, Reply)

If they want to go for it but if they do it because they know no difference or are in fear
then they are not able to make a free choice. The "honor" killings conducted by some fanatical family members are just a sympton of the situation.
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Wed 27 Jan 2010, 1:14, Reply)

They are being forced, albiet surreptiously.
The wearing of the burka is not a religious indoctrination but a cultural one, the same as infibulation and shaving heads for the Hassidic women.
( girlinthehole, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 20:39, Reply)

Could say that about an infinite amount of things
The world is fucked, always has been.
(Fancy a weekend on my Raymondo Luxury Yacht?, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 21:04, Reply)