Burqa Should Be Banned In Australia

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Is this a security debate? Or just an excuse to allow Australians to show there intolerance for differences? With the government wanting a ban on burqas for better security the media and public have gone crazy with reason on why we should ban the burqa such as being un-Australian and intimidating which ruins relationships. This completely untrue because in Australia we have the right to wear what ever we like, it shows the complete in tolerance Australians have for people who do not conform to the social norms and that the security risks that the government is so worried about can be eliminated without the ban. It is our basic human rights to not be discriminated on based our choice of clothing so why is this ignored? Islamic women have the right to wear whatever they like just as much as the Pastafarian's can wear colanders on there heads. “My body is my business." Islamic women wear the burqa to stop the sexualising eyes of men and also to be viewed as a personality not a image one woman stated "It forces people not to judge me based on my appearance, but on my thoughts and character." Some people say that the burqa is oppressive, and that by banning the burqa it would liberate them. This would do the exact opposite by forcing women…show more content…
Just look at death, alien and diseases people don't understand these things so it makes it an easy target for fear that can be manipulated by the media. The burqa is the same people are rarely exposed to it and are uneducated on what the burqa really stands for making it easily feared by others. Women in Burqas are not purposely trying to make people intimidated by them they are just practicing their own religion. Another point that is argued is that the burqa is a "flag of fundamentalism" but this has nothing to do with a security issue, this is just the public fear of terrorism which if the case why aren't Islamic men forced to shave their beards which the prophet Muhammad has "forced" them to
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