If the burkha ban is wrong it's not because it's 'Islamophobic'. It's wrong because it goes against women's rights to dress how they want.
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Replying to @christianjbdev @HPluckrose
Issue being debated is precisely if, for many of these women, is it what THEY want or is it forced, hence law will free them from constraint
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Replying to @israelblog @christianjbdev
It would free the ones being forced & constrain the ones choosing obv.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev
is too one-sided. This isn't a blanket ban on hijab for most part.
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public places have dress codes. Best arg against is universal: state should MINIMALLY interfere w/the intimate
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agreed that's the way it should be looked at - my objection is too exclusionary language of "women's" rights
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using that language excludes people punished by state for religious rules re head dress http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/article_f88c5840-eb05-5cce-b65e-482e0e6fabbe.html …
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Replying to @israelblog
Really, you're going to have a go at me cos I said women, not people?
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Replying to @christianjbdev @HPluckrose
Yes because language matters & exclusionary language is what’s making politics so fruitless these days.
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Get over it. Ppl talk abt specific things in specific tweets, not every important issue in every tweet.
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