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A Fascist Summit Meeting in Belgium

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Randall Gross2/25/2010 12:02:41 pm PST

re: #99 sandbox

Why is it counter productive? It draws a line.

No, it doesn’t. It creates animosity and friction while accomplishing nothing. If a woman wearing a veil scares you or bothers you overmuch I would suggest that it’s your problem, not hers. Banning veils creates repression and furthers our opponent’s causes. It creates sympathy for them where none is warranted.

If you can ban veils, you can ban kippahs or nun’s habits, or biker colors — it’s a slippery damned precedent setting slope and I rarely make those sort of arguments.