{"id":197369,"date":"2008-02-10T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/10\/dutch-to-officially-discourage-the-wearing-of-veils\/"},"modified":"2008-02-10T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-10T23:50:00","slug":"dutch-to-officially-discourage-the-wearing-of-veils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/10\/dutch-to-officially-discourage-the-wearing-of-veils\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch to &#8220;Officially Discourage&#8221; The Wearing of Veils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The original measure was to <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/2008\/02\/dutch_cabinet_wants_school_bur_1.php\">ban the burqa in government offices and schools<\/a>, but they are now going to officially, &#8220;discourage the wearing of burqas in public. &#8230;. by trying to persuade institutions such as schools and public transport companies to impose their own bans, a stop on the garment will also be imposed for civil servants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img219.imageshack.us\/img219\/4149\/21156479we2.jpg\" \/><br \/>a Burqa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the story above, Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders, referred to a burqa as a &#8220;Penguin suit&#8221;.  So it&#8217;s clear that Wilders is a bigoted ass.<\/p>\n<p>However, I am not conflicted on this.  There is a difference between a Hijab (head scarf) and a burqa or niqab (which is similar, except that you can see the eyes).<\/p>\n<p>Ignoring the security issues, which to my mind are minor, complete face covering changes the basic interaction in society, and makes meaningful and peaceful interaction difficult, if not impossible.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, the banning of head scarves, such as is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/news\/world\/stories\/DN-islamicdress_10int.ART.State.Edition1.455e59a.html\">proposed in Spain by the opposition Conservatives<\/a>, sounds to me like plain old bigotry and fear mongering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The original measure was to ban the burqa in government offices and schools, but they are now going to officially, &#8220;discourage the wearing of burqas in public. &#8230;. by trying to persuade institutions such as schools and public transport companies to impose their own bans, a stop on the garment will also be imposed for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[984,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}