Saturday, January 14, 2012

FRENCH BUSINESSMAN SETS UP FUNDS TO PAY BURQA FINES


I have recently come across an article about a French businessman named Rashad Nakaz who has started a one million Euro fund to pay penalties for fully-veiled women in France and Belgium.
The two neighbouring European countries have outlawed the attire, which fully covers a woman's face in public, with a penalty of 150 Euros for violators.

Although I am a Muslim who strongly believes in personal freedom, I strongly oppose the attrition of a burqa in public places, consequently I am in strong favour of any burqa ban laws.
According to Islam, any kind of veiling a woman embraces should cover everything but her face and hands, not her entire body.
Ones face is ones identity, it ought not to be hidden or concealed  in public or within a community. I do not see why society must have to deal with someone who covers their entire face, what if this person is a criminal, a fugitive, an impostor or anything of that sort?
 I understand that wearing a burqa is a personal choice which falls under the category of personal freedom, which brings me to remind all of us that personal freedom remains so
as long as it does not interfere with, offend or jeopardise the freedom, beliefs,customs and security of others.
The authorisation given upon citizens to dress in a way that covers them completely could be taken advantage of in a violating manner that spreads corruption and crime amongst society and used to aid fraudulent schemes, causing a disturbance to security.

Wearing a full-veil might appear to most Muslims  to be a symbol of personal spirituality or obedience to God, but the morbid truth is that many Muslims are controlled by their emotions and prejudice towards Islam, blinding them from foreseeing the risks that arise from immoral individuals and groups who take advantages of religious customs such as wearing a burqa to commit felonies. It is truly despondent that most Muslims do not see how others implement and contravene some of our exorbitant religious customs.

Another heinous truth is the opprobrious misconception of Islam allot of Muslims posses. Islam is about a clean conscious, a pure mentality, a devoted  heart and the willing desire to improve the world and make it a better place. Instead of focusing on such ideals, the war of religious values is being fought on the battleground of women's bodies.


Rashad Nakaz's one million Euros would have been far more estimable if spent on the famine in Somalia, the research of a cure for AIDS or on the billions of people sinking in the tsunamis of poverty and ignorance, not on the 2,000 women who choose to wear a burqa in France and Belgium.

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