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Face masks

  • 30-04-2010 3:14pm
    #1
    Banbh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,037 ✭✭✭


    There are two stories on the BBC News site today: one where Belgium is to ban face-masks/burkas from public places and another where three sisters in Pakistan had their faces disfigured by acid-throwing fundamentalists because their faces were not covered.
    I am not a muslim but would genuinely like to know the views of muslims to both these stories.


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  • #2
    wes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,749 ✭✭✭✭wes


    The Belgian ban is pointless, as per the BBC article, something like 30 Women wear the thing.

    As for the Men who attacked those Women. That is a really bad problem in South Asia in general. Pakistan in particular needs to put more resources into prosecuting Men who do this. Now they have improved a bit in recent times, but no where near enough.

    A strong message needs to be sent to men who commit these crimes, maybe even the death sentences or life in prison (which would be worse, as we are talking about Pakistani prisons here) in some cases to make examples of some of these men. However, they really need to increase the number of prosecutions against men who commits these crimes, with extremely harsh sentences, which should send the message that there acts of violence are unacceptable and will be punished severely.


  • #3
    hivizman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,163 ✭✭✭hivizman


    wes wrote: »
    The Belgian ban is pointless, as per the BBC article, something like 30 Women wear the thing.

    Unless the law has been very cleverly drafted, it will almost certainly turn out to be discriminatory. Will Christian women who wear a veil as part of their wedding dress be prosecuted? Will motorcyclists with full-face visors on their helmets be prosecuted? Will people attending masked balls be prosecuted?

    Also, the suggestion (in France) that husbands who force their wives to wear face veils would also be prosecuted seems to run against the widespread convention that spouses should not be forced to bear witness against each other, so how could such an offence be proved, especially as the general claim of Muslim women in the West who cover their faces is that they do so as a matter of personal choice and certainly not because their husbands make them wear a niqab.
    wes wrote: »
    As for the Men who attacked those Women. That is a really bad problem in South Asia in general. Pakistan in particular needs to put more resources into prosecuting Men who do this. Now they have improved a bit in recent times, but no where near enough.

    A strong message needs to be sent to men who commit these crimes, maybe even the death sentences or life in prison (which would be worse, as we are talking about Pakistani prisons here) in some cases to make examples of some of these men. However, they really need to increase the number of prosecutions against men who commits these crimes, with extremely harsh sentences, which should send the message that there acts of violence are unacceptable and will be punished severely.

    Well-said! This seems to be more of a South Asian cultural thing rather than specifically Muslim, given the number of reports of attacks (sometimes fatal) on Indian women by family members.


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