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Burqa Ban?

7/29/2010

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I've been thinking a lot about the recent debate in Europe about banning burqas (a Muslim woman's face veil). To me, the arguments in favor of the ban seem rooted in fear of the different.  Martha Nussbaum, a U Chicago philosopher and ethicist, provides an elegant destruction of the arguments in favor of the ban:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/veiled-threats/
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