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French Politicians Should Feel Really Stupid And They Should Apologize

Injustice is now endorsed by the nation of France.

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French Politicians Should Feel Really Stupid And They Should Apologize
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So last week I really went ham on religion the negative effects it is bound to have on the human race and why we would be so much better off without it. Now, although I find religion revolting, I do not wish for laws persecuting any one particular faith. Why? Because I am not a believer of totalitarian forms of government and I do believe people should be allowed to live their lives as see fit as long as they follow basic laws and regulations set for everyone else. For instance, no murder. If your religion calls for murder it would still be banned; but outside of that, if you wear a religious hat or scarf or whatever you should be allowed to do so.

Now France has gone and done the single dumbest thing they possibly could in reaction to terrorist attacks. France has started banning burkinis or burka bikinis for muslim women. For those like myself who had no idea what a burkini was until this law came to be, a burkini is a fully clothed bathing suit made for religious muslim women to wear while swimming. To be honest, they completely resemble a wetsuit in many ways. The similarity is uncanny.

Well, France has gone ahead and banned fully clothed swim wear aka burkini's. Guess France wants to see everyone visit nude beaches, right? Perverts, if you ask me.

While the idea of wanting more nudity is humorous, this is actually in response to radical terrorist attacks that have plagued France this year. Here is the problem with this strategy-- you lose the moral high ground. France has lowered its bar of humanity down to that of Saudi Arabia. Dictating who can wear what and how they have to act. When you lose that moral high ground you lose the grounds to make any solid argument on why you are the good guy. These muslim women have been oppressed their entire lives in their home countries and after that suffering they finally make it to a European country where they were told they could be finally be free to wear and do what they want and this is how they get treated. This is supposed to be a first world country on board with the most basic of civil and religious rights. The idea France is a nation that supports freedom is a lie. They treat muslim women in a similar way they were treated back home. Whether your force women to wear or not wear burkinis, forcing your will upon another human being because a 2000 year old book of myths and stories told or led you to reason that is sad. Sad to see France use no common sense in the fight against injustice.




Burkini Compared to a standard female wetsuit.





Need another reason why this ban is bad? This rule is singling out or performing a discriminatory law directly on one group of people, muslim women. Being discriminatory is obviously a horrendously evil act that in itself even if you are going to go that far and ban a religious piece of clothing you have to be fair. If France is going to ban burkinis then they should also ban all traditional muslim, christian, and jewish religious garments by this same logic, right? Then why they not doing that? Then they could at least make the argument they treat everyone equally. Would they however? Of course not these politicians are part of these christian and judaic religious cults. France has the same typical religious bigots the United States has, putting their own religion on a pedestal and fighting against any other voice who disagrees with their 2000 year old fairy tales. The only difference is the language they use to the lies they themselves believe.

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