They Can’t Eat Spaghetti Through A Veil

Italy is looking into banning burqas and niqabs.

This follows France’s obsession with the cloth, and announcement that people wearing it will be banned from all government activities, including transportation.

Of course, forcing women to do things against their will is what feminism is all about.

I mean, women can’t be trusted to make their own decisions, can they?

“This is about a sacrosanct battle to defend the dignity and rights of immigrant women,” said equal opportunities minister Mara Carfagna.

“A law is being studied that would ban the use of a burqa and niqab, which are not religious symbols – that’s not us saying it, but the top religious authorities of the Islamic world, like the imams of Cairo and Paris.

“I completely agree with the French initiative, which I think will push other European countries and hence, also Italy, to enact laws on this issue.”

There is no justification for covering a woman’s face in public, but neither is there justification for forcing a woman to dress a way that she finds too revealing and personally offensive.

The argument goes that many of these women are being coerced by male relatives to don the hated garb. In my experience wives often bow to their husbands’ will on this issue. But if that is the problem, then pushing these women further into the outskirts of society is not the answer.