The entire Western world has originated in a patriarchal framework. All of the ways that Westerners define "freedom" originate in a patriarchal framework. If your problem is with anything that comes from this framework, then we should also be against women wearing bikinis, crop-tops, hip-huggers, and plaids. In fact,…

Perhaps you should ask them instead of just assuming that you know what they can and can't do. Evidently, the French believe that the Muslims are dining on some pretty delicious fare. They are quite eager to patronize restaurants that cater to the palates of Muslims from around the world.

Well, I do hope that all of these European Americans will take your advice and return to their ancestral homeland. After all, they shouldn't be allowed to escape their old country and regime and set one up in the nations of the Indigenous Americans. Right?

Yep, you're absolutely right. And let's be clear about something else: This is just a way of controlling the bodies of mostly women of color, in a state that is almost as systemically racist as the USA. Sadly, it has always been really common for white feminists in the West to make excuses for how their cultures…

Well, we could ban bikinis for the same reasons. After all, there are women who feel forced by the men in their lives to put their bodies on display for the world to gawk at. We could also outlaw salad for all of the women who feel forced to starve themselves by the men in their lives. Let's just outlaw EVERYTHING…

Indeed, there is a reason why you don't hear very often from Muslim women. It's because of this foolishness being spouted in so many of the comments. If you were actually interested in the views of Muslim women, you would have no problem finding out what they are. Since you're only making excuses for colonialism, you…