It did not, and if you’re paying attention, you will note that I nowhere suggested hat it did.

Thank you for your this.

Fuck who they want? Really, that rationale wasn’t very well thought out. But of course Jezebel’s own choice feminism clique really loves to protect one of the most openly misogynistic religions there is. Newsflash: just because some women are/were complicit and like their oppression doesn’t mean they aren’t being…

Is it, though? Deliberately choosing a mode of dress that prevents others from identifying you is pretty much the definition of antisocial.

Only Wahhabism preaches that women should cover the faces in mixed companies.

You tell an awful lot of people to “educate themselves” for someone so ignorant. Apparently Saudis and other adherents of Islamism can’t live in the US and Europe.

Am middle eastern and agree with your unpopular opinion. Fuck burqas and fuck niqabs. Fuck those tools of oppression. I had to wear head covering in the US from early childhood - it was awful and not even as bad as a burqa or niqab. If there had been a ban on it then maybe I and so many other girls wouldn’t have been…

But I do have friends who choose to cover out of their own volition, and as an act of piety towards God.

The women on 19 kids and counting also turn themselves into nothing but walking incubators by “choice”. But most sane people would agree that “choice” in that context means brainwashing by a misogynistic cult.

I agree 100% with you. It may not be a popular stance for a liberal to take, but sometimes a government needs to step in to right a wrong. Wearing burqas is wrong and there is actually nothing in Islam that tells them to do so. It’s not religious freedom..its oppression perpetued by men to keep one gender controlled.…

This is a stupid law, but their submission to a misogynistic tradition should not be celebrated (like we did with Ibtihaj Muhammad).

Those religious communities are extremists and should be dealt with by all means necessary.

I was born in a muslim majority country and lived in one. The idea of burka and hijab are both based in purity culture which perpetuates rape culture. So it’s all bullshit. I will continue to speak out against customs and practices that perpetuate rape culture regardless of whether it’s happening in western culture or…

you are ‘appealing to emotion’ using cancer as a vehicle. how much time have you spent around muslims who are honest about their views of you and your beliefs? the majority muslim countries of which these burquas are a product have refused to make gains in human rights. of all the muslim majority countries there are 5…

they face problems there of their own making. their objective is to draw the culture back 1000 years. the main ingredient in the mass exodus in the muslim majority nations they are driven from or leave is muslim extremists. we have chrisitan extremists in the USA, but they have never driven a single person to have to…

I may get in trouble for this, but may be the intention of the law is to allow assimilation into the Austrian culture. For instance, if a woman were to go to Saudi Arabia or Iran she would be required by law to wear an abaya. I assume there are many women who do not wish to do this, especially in 100 degree heat. But…

There is nothing wrong with banning a restrictive, mysoginistic, instrument of hate. It’s 2017 and time for us to celebrate ourselves, not hide 50% of us.

As much as I’m against the niqab ban, seeing the Muslim community in Europe vs the one here in America makes me glad my dad chose the USA. I understand Muslims (and immigrants in general) face a lot of discrimination there, I kind of understood what made so many of these young men & women flock to Daesh. There, you…

Extremists are isolating and radicalizing muslims... “we should help them!” says Austria.

Good! If you come to a secular country which strongly adheres to freedom of women then this should become the norm for all of Europe! We NEED to combat extremism!