Fashion Statement

Sheema Khan, CAIR-CAN founder and occasional Globe and Mail shill for the Islamist p.o.v., sez hey kids, "Let's fashion a made-in-Canada approach to the the burka."

Great idea, Sheema. Here's my "made-in-Canada approach":

I agree with Muslim groups opposing the Muslim Canadian Congress’s call to ban the burka that “The state has no business dictating what a woman should wear, nor infringing on individual freedoms.” But let’s be clear: for many women, wearing the burka isn’t so much a choice as it is a necessity. If they don’t wear it, and are seen to be violating a strict interpretation of Islamic law, they run the risk, they are told, of being raped (which sharia considers to be their fault, and for which it offers such “enlightened” punishments as flogging); there’s also the chance that one or more of their literal-minded close male relatives may take it into their head to murder them--an “honour” killing meant to clear the family’s name after an “uppity” woman dared besmirch it by parading around in public sans concealment.

In a free society, we cannot prevent people from wearing what they want to. However, it is both ironic and grotesque to use “individual freedom,” a purely Western concept, to validate misogyny and the repressions of sharia.