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Are you in favor of burquas in Spain?
Would you support the following 6 point program being adopted by the Spanish legislature and executive branches of government?

  1. Allow Spanish Muslim communities to practice Sharia if that's what works well for them.
  2. Tolerate (or even encourage) Muslim women being forbidden (by their husbands) from driving cars, or practicing certain professions (as they are in Saudi Arabia).
  3. Legalize state support (through social security funding) of Muslim families composed of 4 wives and 12 kids (like Lies Hebbadj in Nantes, France).
  4. Completely open up its southern borders in a sign of cultural tolerance.
  5. Finance 100+ mosques with public funds in 2011.
  6. And... of course, accept bourquas.
by Lynch on Wed Jun 30th, 2010 at 06:04:23 AM EST
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I think the whole burqa ban thing is cheap immigrant-bashing by xenophobic parties.

A town in Spain just passed a burqa-banning ordinance. There appears to be exectly one burqa-wearing woman in the town.

Civil liberties are not advanced by that kind of immigrant-bashing.

By laying out pros and cons we risk inducing people to join the debate, and losing control of a process that only we fully understand. - Alan Greenspan

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jun 30th, 2010 at 06:19:59 AM EST
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LOL. Now that you had your slippery slippery slope argument, could you please answer me this: how does a burqua ban protect burqua-wearers actually forced by men to wear it from being forbidden leaving home on foot?

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Wed Jun 30th, 2010 at 06:28:29 AM EST
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Conversely, what if it is legally permitted to wear a burqua, but nobody does because doing so would invite a stoning from the Christians?
by asdf on Wed Jun 30th, 2010 at 08:25:56 AM EST
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Good point. We have witnessed many Christian stonings of Muslims over the past couple of years. The trend is clearly worrying.
by Lynch on Wed Jun 30th, 2010 at 10:19:43 AM EST
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Yes, if Spain allows women to wear burqas, it's only a matter of time before they ban women from driving.  And before you know it, people are sleeping with their pets.

Or something.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Wed Jun 30th, 2010 at 06:30:38 AM EST
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Mmm. Yes. And the Swiss cheese was a bit too salty, of course.
by Lynch on Wed Jun 30th, 2010 at 08:54:57 AM EST
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Oh noes! The brown barbarians are taking over! He-alp! He-alp!
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Jun 30th, 2010 at 06:59:59 AM EST
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Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Wed Jun 30th, 2010 at 07:18:08 AM EST
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Is that a Spanish dog?
by Lynch on Wed Jun 30th, 2010 at 08:57:04 AM EST
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