The burqa and niqab debate

[Rath]

ironman said:

Rath said:

Words Of Wisdom said:

Oliver Wendell Holmes once said "The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins."  

Very much akin to this I believe that one's  freedoms of religion and the like end where another person's freedoms begin.  This applies both to men forcing women to wear these things and to groups wishing to ban them.

But how on earth do you seperate the two?

Easy, they are Americans first, Islamist second. The constitution is absolute, Islam is not. 

1.) What on earth does that have to do with my post? I was asking how do you seperate the freedom of religion from the oppression of women, its a difficult situation and seemingly has nothing to do with your post.

2.) The constitution isn't absolute. Absolute implies universality, which the constitution lacks (as it applies to the USA only) and it also implies immutability, which the constitution lacks as it can be amended.

3.) This topic never even specified America. The only example actually used was France which is where this is a current event.

 

So yeah, your post confuses me.