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France estimated that 2000 women who wear the burqa would be affected.

The critical issue here is how to separate the willing burqa-wearers from the women who are forced to wear the burqa. I don't think anybody has a good way to distinguish between the two groups, or even knows what their relative numbers are.

France erred on the side of protecting those who are forced to wear it. I am really on the fence about whether that's the right solution, and I see valid points on both sides being made here.

P.S. Even if all of 200 of these burqa-wearing women are western converts (which they're not), this is not exactly a huge number of converts. [/quote]

I am aware that burka-wearing women are a tiny fraction of the population -- "many" doesn't mean "thousands."  But if someone is forced to wear it (by, say, her husband), what do you think will happen with a ban? In all likelihood, their husbands will further restrict their ability to be in public. How is that "protecting them"?

The fact that it's a tiny number of women wearing it, and the fact that the French public spent months and months discussing it as a big deal -- with most people agreeing with a ban from the beginning -- reaffirms that this kind of law can be interpreted as an opportunity to express, willingly  or not, rejection to "otherness."

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But allowing these women to wear the burqa in public effectively protects the husband and his values. Whereas banning the burqa will force many of these husbands to relent, and allow their wives to go out in public to shop, attend school, or take a job. I don't know if anybody has numbers for how this plays out IRL. That's another side of this coin, though.[/quote]

I should add, "his values," which would be protected by lifting the burqa ban, are not universally accepted by Muslims as "Muslim" values. I posted earlier that the Quran does not require head-to-toe covering, or covering of the face, rather this is a part of Wahhabism and in places like Pakistan.

Rather, the "values" that would be protected by lifting the burqa ban are the Western values of being free to dress as you want. Or as your husband wants, in some but not all cases.[/quote]

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