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Debate Score:49
Arguments:45
Total Votes:49
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Should the burqa and niqab be banned (in Western countries)

The burqa is the one with the semitransparent cloth or mesh over the eyes and the niqab is the one that has the slit for the eyes.

Yes

Side Score: 21
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No

Side Score: 28

Absolutely it is a sign of the oppression of women. If they want to behave in a medieval way like this should have stayed in their home countries. Any women that claims to want to wear them has been brainwashed into believing their inferiority.

Side: Yes
3 points

While in many countries it can indeed be a sign of oppression, in Western countries it is often something done voluntarily. By telling these women that they can not wear what they want, you are yourself attempting to oppress them. While I agree that voluntarily wearing it seems like a case of brainwashing, many, many things in society, particularly as they relate to religion, involve brainwashing, and it is wrong to single out one group for this sort of behavior, regardless of personal opinions.

Side: No
1 point

But we can tell them what to do as these are our countries. They need to behave in ways that are not totally at odds with our societies. Also there are issues with crime and security in allowing people to hide their identities in public.

Side: Yes
1 point

Agree.

There is much more of a cultural reason to wear them, than a religious imperative. In the cultures that these are worn, women are completely suppressed. No freedom, no education, no career choice, nothing but control. There is no place for such beliefs in the cultures that have come to understand basic human rights. Ban.

Side: Yes
3 points

Where I live, I have met multiple women who choose to wear them without any influence from male figures in their lives. By banning them, you would be the one suppressing them, denying their freedom and trying to control them. Don't you find that hypocritical?

Side: No
1 point

They're a double edged insult to Arab womanhood. The backward thinking places the onus on the woman to cover herself in case men ogle their naughty bits, and by not requiring male Arabs to do the same it's implying that woman don't, or shouldn't find men sexually attractive. These garments which belong to the primitive thinking of the dark ages should most definitely be banned. They should be incinerated in an enormous ceremonial bonfire in Mecca.

Side: Yes
1 point

I don't think it has to be banned. Being in Western countries already gives them enough freedom to take off their burqa and niqab but many women choose not to all because that's just how they want it not because there's a sense of oppression. These women see the world with a different perspective unlike all the other women who have grown up in such liberated countries. I think how it should be is not to ban the burqa and the niqab but to open the choice of simply allowing women to not wear the burqa and niqab if they want to. If they want to follow the tradition that they have always followed, I don't see any point to intervene. It's not like niqab and burqa is being forced upon as soon as a Muslim woman with a niqab/burqa steps foot on a Western country.

Side: No
1 point

No.

Side: No
1 point

You tolerate the oppression of women? That is awful.

Side: Yes
flewk(1193) Disputed
1 point

Oppression is an action. What you are referring to is social compliance. They come from a culture different than yours so you believe them to be brainwashed/uncivilized. This is a fairly common ethnocentric view.

Side: No
1 point

Why not just ban Islam all together?

Side: No
1 point

If it were up to me then all religion would be banned.

Side: Yes
flewk(1193) Disputed
1 point

So, you complain about oppression in other countries, but think it is fine as long as it is your country?

Side: No