Yasmine Mohammed ياسمين محمد  🦋

that it can never be her choice even if she thinks it is, because it's self-oppressive. And you can say this is why we should ban it. But /2

when you zoom out, I would say the same about women being religious, or wearing hijab. Would you ban being religious on the same grounds? /3

This is why I oppose burka/niqab bans. It's just one symptom of a bigger disease. /4

Niqab is a curtain for the face, but religion is a condom for the mind. Focusing on the skin lesion over an underlying cancerous abscess /5

isn't going to heal either one. Regulate: don't do it to kids, and establish ID/security when needed. Otherwise, let people do what they /6

want. Freedom of choice also includes stupid choices. That's the cost. But you can't argue for a niqab/burka ban without arguing for /7

a religion ban as well. Can't be selective about self-oppressive "choices." /end

It will come to that - making the religious back off from secular societies. Because all they do is undermine everything about secularism.