To be or not to be

Burqa is getting set to be banned in France. People from all over the world are in a debate on and off the television sets criticizing the French government, the government has already banned the use of religious symbols in educational institutes, symbols such as cross, scarf and head bands,through there are quite a large number of people supporting the ban, mainly the people in France. I would say it needs a gutsy administrative group to make such a decision at this point of time. I see Burqa has been a symbol of self imposed exile status chucked to a women, many disagree with but its an individuals ulitmate right to do what he and she thinks is right but what is the message a women give out when she wears a burqa?. Is'nt it a clear symbol of a male chauvinism, even though some feel that "Burqa prevents women from harassment and it is done on safety grounds" but how can anyone say that today? How rude to say that? for how long should a women be in a protecting gere? for the next 100 years? 200 year ? or another century? if there is some problem for the women in the society that issue should be addressed and soughted out, instead we are turning a blind eye to the problem by just looking one side of the problem. the root cause should be deleted, cutting the branches will only make it strong.

There is no second opinion on the fact that women needs protection in a society but burqa is definitely is not the answer. I am glad that at least everybody is talking about the burqa. When there are hundreds of people saying that you cannot force a women not to wear something, the people should also remember that there are places in the world where wearing burqa is compulsory, there should be more attention given to that issue. We should respect women as they are, you cannot cage her like a bird for the sake of safety, a bird should be free to fly and face its own life, to our convince, we cannot keep a bird in the cage, we should have the time to let it roam free and take care or else we should never own a bird. There are women who feels comfortable in wearing a burqa and it is because they have been so much influenced with the conditioning and the information passed on to them in ages that they feel it is mandatory, let them continue that way. Thank God it is not mentioned in the Quran that Burqa is compulsory had it been that way then a bigger part of the women will be in a self imposed exile for the rest of their lives. Every women should be given equal rights and nothing should divide them from doing what a man can do in today's society, especially on the basis of religion. A lady during the debate in a T.V said "The phrase be Rome in roman simply cannot be accepted because the world has civilized a lot today" very true but if there should be no compulsion in banning a burqa then there should be no compulsion in forcing a lady to wear a burqa as well. By Nature's Law the only place they lack while comparing to men is physically but the mental weakness is caused by many holy men who have down the ages seen women only as a second fiddle. goddamnit