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[–]jkfinn 8 insightful - 7 fun8 insightful - 6 fun9 insightful - 7 fun -  (3 children)

Catholics have never been subject to dress bans, nor have various Protestant sects like the Amish, Shakers, and Quakers so why should Islamic persons, young or old. It just seems part of the long deep western prejudice toward Islam. I would definitely side with that wing of the Green Party that sees these bans as anti-Islam or racist in origin. (Dress traditions are not the same as those that involve physical mutilations, or those demanding the use of force to exact--there’s just no crying need to intervene with outright bans)

[–]loq453 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

What mandatory clothing do Catholics have? Mentioning nuns is a strawman, nuns are not average women, they are women who willingly chose to join a monastic order. Monks also have rules about what clothes they can wear, so it is not a sex based rule, it is a monastic order rule.

[–]jkfinn 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

The vast majority of nuns are not monastic. And why is up to Westerners to decide what's consensual or not consensual about Islamic dress traditions.

[–]Amareldys 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It becomes up to Westerners when it is happening in Western cultures. You can't say, "Well, German women will have equal rights here but Syrian ones will not".