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Strong Response To Those Who Ban The Burqa By Zaid Patel

Strong Response To Those Who Ban The Burqa

Point number one: I ask those who are of the opinion that 

women have the right to display their bodies, on what basis 

do you say this? The answer: freedom! If women are 

allowed to display their bodies in the name of freedom, 

then why can’t women cover their bodies 1n the name of 

the same freedom? If in the name of freedom a woman is 

free to dress however she pleases, why can’t women wear 

the burga in the same freedom’s name’ 

Strong Response to those who ban the Buraa by Zaid Patel 2 

A feminist movement called My Body My Choice has been 

active from 1969 up until now. According to this slogan 

itself, why can’t a Muslim woman wear a burqa? 

Following complaints by two French Muslim women, fined for wearing a full-body veil or niqab, a UN Committee of 

independent human rights experts ruled in their favour on Tuesday, stating that their freedom to practice their religion had 

been infringed. 

The Committee, mandated with monitoring the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights”, received 

the two complaints in 2016. 

The women had been prosecuted, convicted and fined in 2012 for wearing the niqab, based on a 2010 French law which stipulates that 

“no one may, in a public space, wear any article of clothing intended to conceal the face.” The law has the effect of banning the wearing 

of the full Islamic veil in public, which covers the whole body, leaving only a narrow slit for the eyes. 

The Committee of 18 independent experts from around the world, stated in two rulings, that the right to practice one’s religion includes 

the wearing of distinctive clothing and head coverings.