Ban the Burqa

I read an interesting article this week about a proposed ban on burqas in Belgium, and it raised a lot of questions in my noggin. Which was unexpected, because honestly, burqas are just soooo foreign to me, a woman who likes to do these kinds of things, that my noggin has always just kind of written burqa-wearing off as something un-knowable to me.

How could I possibly formulate an educated opinion about something so foreign to me? How can any of us, when it comes as such an extreme? I mean, in our culture, we encounter chicks with their buns and boobies out all the time, in various formats. How are we possibly going to understand a burqa? I know lots of people have lots of strong opinions about them, though. So I guess it’s a topic worth thinking about a bit more.

And, also, now this Belgian is bringing up yet another issue about them – a new one for me, at least, who always just wonders if it’s hot under a burqa. Daniel Bacquelaine, the Belgian who proposed the bill, says it’s not fair to let some members of society walk around all covered up and covert-like. He’s saying the burqa is unfair to society, not to the woman underneath it.

Is it? Is the burqa fair…to anyone?