"I fight your idea, which is different from mine, but I am ready to fight to the price of my life because you, your idea may be freely expressed." (Voltaire)
Maybe , all you need is a little 'culture more. The Minister for Equal Opportunities' Mara Carfagna, is proposing in this hours, to ban the burqa and niqab in Italian classes. His thesis is that they represent a sense of slavery and oppression against women and that these traditions are incompatible with the Italian tradition. I would disagree. First of all, when we speak of oppression imposed on a particular thought or way of being and he who is Muslim does not see the burqa as a tax, it seems more oppressive and ban prohibiting the free expression of their beliefs. Furthermore, the concept of integration, which she sees difficult to reach allowing to wear such garments, respect for traditions and customs of others is the first step to avoid any discrepancies. Let us not lose ourselves in the examples of family tragedies linked to religion, using them as a shield for these proposals racist.
Secondly, the traditions which she says threatened: "Tolerance can not become a threat to our civilization. Time is running out, an on-going effort to overcome centuries of civilization, to establish a regime that denies the rights. " Centuries of civilization?! The Muslim traditions have centuries of history behind it and a representative of the Government is limited to eradicating them by appealing to the danger of tolerance (an oxymoron) and the fact that try to overwhelm centuries of civilization? ... But where in Italy? ... in the same state where in Rome this summer when there was the hunt Gay Mayor merely treat as a student spirit among students? In Italy in Milan where a black boy is beaten up by two adults in a box of cookies? In Italy, where the highest levels of government have pending court cases if not lapsed and charges of aiding and abetting the prostitution? In Italy, where a Muslim girl can not swim with the Birkin because it is considered unhygienic? Ah yes ... it is a civilized country our dear minister.
"If a pig is only the cry of the scandal, if there are ten you do not say anything, if winds are doubts about themselves, if they are even more grunt is blissfully in chorus"
Julien De Valckenaere
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