Did the French make a right call?

It is really disturbing that 9 people said yes. Really disturbing.

You have to realize that the women who wear the burka or the niqab "by choice" have been indoctrinated from childhood by men to believe they deserve no respect otherwise.
Arresting them or otherwise sanctioning them now would just be victim abuse. France chose a pretty shitty, reactionary way to deal with it.

So, I am not allowed to wear that sexy and stylish scarf I got from France IN France?

Yeah, this is an example of othering of Muslums in Europe. I have my opinion on some of the coverings of muslums being sexist, some of them are just as a sing of respect just as the head covering that Jews wear is respect to God or the fact that I shake someone's hand is a sing of respect or removing my hat inside is repsectfull to the person owning my house.

That law is Racist, but so are the French...wait...im French...

If you are going to argue that then anyone else could say the same thing about Christianity as a whole because of the witch hunts.

The witch hunts are a thing of the past. We don't still burn witches at the stake, however a lot of Muslim women are still treated badly.

Im not a liberal or anything. but i am against it. The reasons have already been stated and are prety obvious. I mea, how would the french like it if we baned berets.

You have to remember that very few women in islam actually wear the niqab (I think there is a grand total of about *gasp* 70 women who wear it in Spain).
Yes, I don't think those women would wear a tent if it wasn't for a bunch of patriarchal assholes indoctrinating them into believing they're crap for not wearing it.

I fail to see how that has anything to do with the reality of the abuse those women go through at the hands of their patriarchal overlords.
Also, I didn't deny anything to anyone
Edit: if you read my original comment you'll see I condemned what France did

I'm in favor. Maybe other euro-peon countries will actually make attempts to preserve their culture.

I realized I should've clarified a bit and I edited my post a little (a little too late)

I repeat, I condemned what the French did in my original post...

More editing:

I never said that, I was referring specifically to the women who wear the niqab/burka and even then I wasn't generalizing my statement to all of them, who knows maybe a few of them grew up in France to secular parents and thought it would be really neat if they dressed like ninjas all the time or whatever the situation may be. But that's not going to be the case most of the time, it is because of the male chauvinists and it is like that regardless of what country they live in.

Viewing this on a historic perspective, the Europeans always treated Muslums very badly. It is something called othering which continues to this day.

Actually the Slavic people were just as bad. Especially when the Ottomans also started creeping unto the Balkans.


But more to the point.
Yes, I do believe it's the right call. Currently in Belgium we've got 2 generation.
The 1th generation which adopted moderately well to our laws and where we hardly have any issues with.
The 2nd generation is trying to adopt to a ever changing society while being taught the old school values and having trouble mixing them.
So now, when a girl walks down a street we've got groups of 4 or 5 shouting "whore!!' because she wears a skirt and a top, but meanwhile most music they listen to is US rap.
There's also a vicious circle going on of mistrust followed by rage followed by erratic acts followed by mistrust and so on which is complicating things.

So, basicly, a lot of secular problems are happening in Europe with the Muslim population more like 'merging in an American' way instead of actually integrating.
Maybe applying certain laws to drag them into the 21th century and out of their religious influence might make things better?