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Originally Posted by kipperfan
I consider myself an atheist as well and agree with your post for the most part. At the same time I think your missing the biggest issues here, the burqa is not only a tool used to segregate and degradate women but it is also, IMO and in the opinion of many others, a national security risk. The same can not be said about rosarie beads and bibles.
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So is any person with excessive facial hair if you want to get particularly anal about it. A burqua still allows you to see the eyes of the person and with retina scanning and fingerprinting becoming more common as a way of distinguishing indentity, I fail to see where a burqua is anymore of a security threat then the man with an excess of facial hair that also covers most of his face.
I agree, rosaries and bibles obviously do not fall under the same category of a security threat as a burqua, but if we are going to start banning things that are security threats as opposed to religious objects which are offensive to groups (which is all I was referring to in my post), then we need to start banning facial hair, bandana's, belaclava's, sunglasses and other such things that impede everyone from seeing the whole face since that is also a security risk.
Again, its a matter of if you want to ban one thing for a reason, then it all needs to go.