This issue was raging in the French media last year, and then became a topic for debate in Australia earlier this year. Should the burka be banned in Western countries? Here is an example of a commonplace journal entry:
Article title: Burkas not welcome in France: Sarkozy, date: June, 22, 2009
For: Sarkozy, French politicians, Western women's rights groups.
French president Nicolas Sarkozy claims that the burka is "a symbol of subjugation" (subjugation - tobring under control; to make submissive). Sarkozy's claim that wearing the burka undermines French secularism and women's rights received support from some politicians. In response to "pro-choice" perspectives, Sarkozy argues that "civil servants must not wear any outward sign of their religion, whether they are Catholics, Jewish, Orthodox, Protestant or Muslim." Women can wear headscarves as long as it their decision to do so.
Against: French Council for the Muslim Religion, Barack Obama:
Mohammed Moussaoui has called the banning of the burka a way of "stigmatising Islam and the Muslims of France" (stigmatise - to brand or mark in a negative way). There are several thousand Islamic women who wear the burka living in France today. American president Barack Obama has defended Muslim women's choice to wear the headscarf if they want to. French politicians have been accused of wasting time on a fringe phenomenon.
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