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Volume XII, Issue # 133, July 23, 2010
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FRANCE'S BURQA BAN IN CONTEXT
By Raymond Ibrahim
LAW ENFORCEMENT, PUBLIC SAFETY, & NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERNS: VERY GOOD REASONS WHY FRANCE,
BRITAIN, THE U.S.A., & OTHER WESTERN SOCIETIES SHOULD PROHIBIT PERSONS FROM WEARING THE BURQA IN PUBLIC
PLACES -- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BURQAS & THE ACTIVITIES OF THE ISLAMIST FIFTH COLUMN OPERATING IN
WESTERN COUNTRIES -- BANNING THE BURQA AS LIMITING THE OPTIONS OF ISLAMISTS RESIDING IN THE WEST -- THE
SECULAR STATE VERSUS WEARING THE BURQA IN PUBLIC PLACES
FULL STORY:
That France is moving toward banning the burqa is a positive development on several fronts: For starters, while many are
the arguments against the burqa — it is anachronistic, misogynistic, etc. — the fact is there have been many instances
worldwide where criminals and Islamic terrorists have facilitated their activities by concealing their identities via the burqa
(which, we are reminded, was originally designed for female "modesty").
(Incidentally, it always bears asking — what if the shoe was on the other foot? Would the Muslim world, which has
problems with something as inoffensive as churches being built, allow a distinctly Western custom on its soil — especially
one that poses hazards?)
Moreover, according to former Islamists, a direct correlation exists between radical Islam and burqas — that is, wherever
there is an increase of the former, there follows an increase of the latter, which is seen as a physical manifestation of
radicalism.
However, where the Western infidel bans the burqa, such as in France, the Islamists' options become limited: stay and be
forced into conforming (and essentially "liberalizing"); insist on the burqa, and, as a matter of priorities, return to
accommodating Muslim countries. Or, of course, forego the burqa in compliance with secular laws, but continue to harbor
Islamist beliefs in a state of taqiyya or taysir.
The burqa ban is ultimately a reminder that those religions that do not "render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and God what
is God's" always will be at odds with secular societies. Indeed, when it comes to Sharia mandates that conflict directly with
secularism, the burqa is but the tip of the iceberg.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
France -- People, Politics, Government, & Public Policy:
French Internal Security Policy & Suppression of the Islamist Fifth Column;
French Foreign Policy -- France, Europe, the Middle East, & the U.S.A.;
United States Foreign Policy Toward France
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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Middle East -- Arabs, Arab States,
& Their Middle Eastern Neighbors
American Foreign Policy -- The Middle East
International Politics & World Disorder:
War, Peace, & Geopolitics in the Real World:
Foreign Affairs & U.S. National Security
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
Counterterrorism & U.S. National Security
U.S. National Security Strategy
Raymond Ibrahim, a historian of Islam, Islamism and the Middle East, is the Associate Director of the Middle East Forum,
a guest lecturer at the National Defense Intelligence College, and the editor of The Al-Qa'ida Reader, a collection
of tranlations of key texts and documents of the Islamist movement. Ibrahim's translations of the religious texts and
political propaganda comprising this collection help readers comprehend the origins, development, history, and serious
danger of the Islamist war doctrines of Usama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Founders of Al-Qa'ida and
implacable enemies of the U.S.A. and the West.
The foregoing article by Raymond Ibrahim was originally published in National Review Online, July 23, 2010, and
can be found on the Internet website maintained by the Middle East Forum, a foreign policy think tank which seeks to
define and promote American interests in the Middle East, defining U.S. interests to include fighting radical Islam,
working for Palestinian Arab acceptance of the State of Israel, improving the management of U.S. efforts to promote
constitutional democracy in the Middle East, reducing America's energy dependence on the Middle East, more robustly
asserting U.S. interests vis-à-vis Saudi Arabia, and countering the Iranian threat.
(Article URL: http://www.meforum.org/2691/france-burqa-ban)
Republished with Permission of the Middle East Forum
Reprinted from the Middle East Forum News
mefnews@meforum.org (MEF NEWS)
July 23, 2010
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