mercredi 13 avril 2011

Burqa: don't ban! Éditorial du Washington post


"But in a free society, people must be free to communicate offensive messages, as much in their dress as in their actual speech. If a Muslim woman is free to state — on a blog, in a book or from a podium — the words “I am a social prisoner of my husband, willing to erase my public identity to fulfil the expectations imposed on me by some retrograde interpretation of Islam,” then why can this message not be equally communicated, indirectly, by her dress?

A common objection to this is that niqabbed Muslim women do not dress as they do of their own volition; that they are forced to do so by their husbands and families. And so the fabric on their faces is an artifact of domestic abuse, not a mere article of clothing.

But even in such cases — and no doubt, there are many — what good does it do to attack the symptom of abusive domestic relationships. Canadian households in which women live in fear of their husband should be the subject of police investigation, no matter how a woman appears in public. As we see it, a woman who dresses publicly in jeans and T-shirt but is beaten by her husband behind closed doors represents as much a tragedy as a niqab-clad woman who avoids trouble by silently following her tyrannical relatives’ wishes.

The move to ban clothing we don’t like sets us down a dangerous path — for there are all sorts of other styles that communicate offensive creeds. The baggy trousers and gangland headgear of many young black men, for instance, can be traced to the influence of African-American prison culture. Are we to ban these clothes, as well, on the basis that they celebrate criminality?"

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/04/12/editorial-don%E2%80%99t-ban-the-burka/

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