Burqa Battle Is Over Competing Visions of Religion in Public Square

Are you living in the real world? Or a protected, wealthy environment where you go to nice cocktail parties, and your kids elite schools, and all you know are other well-educated, respectful, polite folks. Come down to earth a bit and visit our other world...I cannot believe you defend the burka! How would your precious cocktail parties flow, if all the women guests were wering them, your children's school's, your workplace...go ahead, tell me!
I suppose you willingly allow any heinous practice and its expression in our public places...Is there any practice you would ban? For Heaven's sake! We forbid every inhuman thing, from cock-fighting, dog-fighting, protect every species, protect children and ban drugs that may harm...yet clothe this practice in religion and everyone it all for it. Most of these commentators will not be running into hordes of women such as these on their streets as so feel quite comfortable with the occasional apparition...Thanks alot all you high-minded folks...You are safe knowing you won't have to really live with the consequences...

You seem to argue that any behavior is acceptable, if it is done in the name of religion. That is an irrational premise and a strange one for a Christian to take. It is an article of religion for Muslims that they are to kill anyone, especially Christians, who will not submit and convert to Islam. Consult the Koran. The Koran also commands Muslims to slaughter Jews, who are singled out for particular contempt. The fact that Islam demands this behavior does not give it one shred of legitimacy. Anyone who argues that these murderous behaviors are to be tolerated because they are religious is hopelessly evil and/or an utter fool.

So it is with the burka. To be fair, the Koran does not require the burka. It is culturally imposed by those Islamic adherents who value the utter subjugation and objectification of womanhood more than usual,even in Islam. To be condemned to walk in a shroud with only a slit or worse, a screen from which to peer out at the outside world is a torture and a nightmare.You extol Obama. Obama is callous in his disregard for the freedom of Muslim women. His endorsement of Islam and all its hideous assaults on the human dignity, freedom and human choice, is as unAmerican as it is cruel.

You clearly think very little of women's freedom in general and Muslim women in particular by your endorsement of this hideous badge of slavery. Your own religion would teach you to refrain from calling evil, good, and good, evil.It would counsel you to refrain from shameful deeds of darkness, but rather to expose them. Sarkozy has brought the inhumanity of the burka to the light, and is behaving far more in conformity with Christ than those who would justify this tyranny against women in the name of religion.

Until one of you religious simpletons can prove that there is a god, then no respect should be given to religions. They are a made up means of controlling people and providing "answers" for those who absolutely refuse to think for themselves. Religions are akin to Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, and invisible friends. Until these "religious leaders" can finally admit that there is no god and that their religious lives have been in vain, all the rest of us can do is to show disdain for these intellectuals flaws.