^I think it goes further than that - wearing a tie or jeans don't actually have to do with a person's core beliefs, so denying someone the right to wear jeans does not interfere with their core values in the same way. If someone opened a golf course and said, "jeans are fine, hell, wear whatever you want to play golf; except no niqabs", odds are that person is doing it because they just don't like muslims. That's arguably a human rights issue even though it isn't a charter issue.
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Originally Posted by Vulcan
I was misinformed about female circumcision, thanks but this CTV clip of the founder of the Canadian Congress denies that the Niqab is a part of Islam.
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Yeah, I'm not terribly surprised he's saying that. But then there's the actual scripture. This is pretty much just like saying the eucharist isn't a part of Christianity.
There's this obfuscation practice that some people have been participating in for a number of years now, where they deny that there is a religious motivation for clearly religiously motivated behavior. Even Jihad, for some people, has no basis in Islamic doctrine.
That's insanity.
There are always multiple factors, including cultural and economic factors, that play into the way people behave. But denying that someone is doing something in large part because of religious belief, especially when they
explicitly tell you they're doing it because of religious belief, is absolutely bonkers.