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PARIS, France — France, a country with nearly four million Muslims, is now considering a ban on the traditional Muslim burka. President Nicholas Sarkozy recently declared that the garb is “not welcome” in his country, since France would not accept that “women be prisoners behind a screen, cut off from all social life, deprived of all identity.” While some have touted this move as a chance to remove women from the strictures thrust on them by an oppressive fundamentalist culture, others disagree...
...edge of haute couture, should not attempt to save women from oppression by dictating what they wear. On my last day in Paris, I glanced at a newsstand and saw 50-year-old Sharon Stone topless on the cover of Paris Match. In a country so seemingly liberal, the ban on burkas feels even more out of place. I agree that measures should be taken to ensure that citizens are not forced into wearing this traditional attire against their will, but a universal law prohibiting them is not the solution. However, a ban on nudity over...
...Seeking to offer a good word for America, and for Harvard, I asked the two men what they thought about our culturally sensitive policies. Sarkozy might want to ban burqas in France, I said, but in America, women can wear what they want. In recent years, I added, Harvard has constructed a private prayer space for Muslim students, and given Muslim women special hours for working out in the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center. My words fell on uncomprehending ears. I was as powerless as Royal to communicate my beliefs. The two friends did not understand what I meant when...
...with friends and relatives repeatedly turned to the president of France Nicolas Sarkozy’s declaration earlier this summer that the burqa “will not be welcome on the territory of the French Republic.” Although the French have yet to issue an outright ban on wearing burqas in public, a bipartisan committee of 32 lawmakers has been dispatched to come up with ways to prevent women from donning the head-to-toe garments whose only aperture is veiled in mesh...
...Everyone I spoke to—left-leaning, flexibly minded, young and middle-aged people—was, at least on the gut level, sympathetic to the ban. Yet, as abhorrent as the burqa is to me, the notion of legislating an outright ban was something that, with my American gut, I could not swallow...