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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'm sorry but I don't believe that a ban on the burka is going to get a man who forces his wife to wear one to suddenly become enlightened. Do you really think a woman who is forced to wear a burka is going to be allowed to get a job?[/quote]

No, but let's avoid straw men. Some women undoubtedly will be allowed to go out without their burkas, to buy groceries or clothing if for no other reason. Other men will decide that newly imposing the burka isn't worth it because they would have to take on the grocery shopping. Some women might leave such marriages.

The point is, we don't know the relative numbers of women involved here, but you can't write it off with "these women wouldn't be getting jobs anyway." (Although given unployment in France, there may be unemployed men with working wives.) Now if I can ask, why do you think it's preferable to come down on the side of the burka-imposing men, by supporting their rights? Do you have numbers to support your contention that more women would be housebound be than allowed to go out burkaless after all? I'm sincerely curious.[/quote]

I should add, your argument that allowing burkas protects women is different from the freedom of expression arguments. I think your "allow burkas to protect housebound women" argument is flawed, lacks evidence and could easily be turned upside down to say that banning burkas does more to protect women. Pending evidence, of course, which neither of us has brought.

I truly am on the fence about the freedom of expression argument.[/quote]

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