Tuesday, December 29, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Barbara Kay: The West Must Ban the Burqa and Nix the Niqab - The question of full coverage is not one of tolerance or free expression. It is a question of social and civic propriety. - '...For these and other reasons Sharia law is anathema to democracy. Therefore, for our political and collective psychological health, we should support full coverage, Sharia’s most visible symbol, being banned in France and in all Western countries without guilt. Democratic Muslims will thank us for such a ban, and as for undemocratic Muslims -- well, if democracy wasn’t what they wanted, why are they here in the first place?'
