On Thursday 25 Jun 2009 4:57:46 pm Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: > most of Europe is moving towards banning the purdah and > hijab.
IMO "most of Europe" is being stupid. It is as much of a curbing of personal freedom to ban the hijab as it is to impose it. I think that if Europe or any other entity have a problem with Islamic laws they should go after the real problem areas that are constanly used to create trouble rather than attack a strawman like the wearing of a hijab. Islam definitely has problem areas that are the cause of significant trouble. By picking on the hijab and holding up its banning as some kind of great victory for freedom. What Europe is doing is saying: "We have 2 kinds of people, Europeans and Muslims. Europeans don't wear the hijab. Muslims do" On a half serious note - why does Sarkozy figh over women's stete of undress. Why not ban circumcision as an imposition on the rights of male children? I don't care much for European views on islam. They are confused. Europe is (naturally) a product of its own history and the Crusades were fought in Europe. The winners of the crusades wiped most of Europe clean from islam, but where Islam won, it (mostly) wiped all other religions clean. I believe that Islam and Christianity have a "This world ain't big enough for both of us" relationship with each other (and other religions) and "Europe's" views on the hijab are a subtle reflection of that. India is a different ball game. shiv
