“Does Burqa really stand for oppression and male-authority? The question is broad and different people might interpret it from different angles.” This article is an objective analysis of whether wearing of a burqa should be a matter of personal choice.
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Author: Saurabh Das
Does Burqa really stand for oppression and male-authority? The question is broad and different people might interpret it from different angles. But the thing that sparks the issue most is – does any nation have the right to impose its culture and dictums on the people who belong to some different culture? Is diversity not the new geographical order of the world? Can a nation impose anything in any way? Is this not back to primitivism?
The point is, if a woman decides to wear Burqa, that’s her choice. However, if a religion imposes someone to wear some particular type of clothes, that’s out and out dictatorial. That’s not anyway different from imposition by France (read it Nicholas Sarkozy) that Burqa holds no place in France. There’s no difference between what Islam says (wear Burqa) and what France says (Don’t wear Burqa). Both the things are exactly the same, i.e., authoritative in character. When such is the case, we can reject both the arguments and look at a new argument, which says that there should be freedom of choice. In the process, we will look at the aspect of democracy.
If a woman wants to wear Burqa, nobody in the world has the right to force her to wear something else. If she is deep into Islam and follows the teaching taught therein, she sure can continue with her choice. But, that must be her ‘choice’ irrespective of what her husband, religion or the nation wants. This is what we call freedom of choice – including the freedom to wear anything. However, if some entity forcefully imposes the notion of Burqa, this is something that is against the basic freedom and choice of human beings. France, being a democratic country, has issued an imperialistic order. She has shown her authoritative side, and that is not truly France that we know. Indeed, not the France of Voltaire, Guy de Maupassant and Honor de Balzac – the writers who taught freedom of choice and devoted their life for this single cause. If some woman in France wears Burqa, France should take it as a cultural diversity and not something that goes against their culture. If an Islamic nation issues such an order that Burqa should be worn or not worn, then it is understood, but a nation that has Christianity as its main religion can’t impose its lifestyle on someone that follows absolutely different notions.
The idea here is freedom of choice – that France should let her people practice. Imposing views on Burqa through religion or nation is a thing that holds no importance in the modern context. Neither France nor Islam can force someone to wear something. But a woman, instead of all her education and learning, decides to wear Burqa – that should be respected. Freedom of choice, together with the diversity should be respected. If the Burqa has to go, that has to start from Arab nations, so that the people who go out of Arab should enter other nations as liberal people and fit in the western world. The change must start from radical Islamic states and then it will spread to other nations. In fact, this is the responsibility of women to bring on this change – a male, a nation or a religion will never do that. A woman has to fight; the only thing she has to do is – just don’t wear a Burqa and then stand for this cause until death. Or simply, follow Tasleema Nasreen.
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Strongly agree!