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I think the point France is trying to make is not against the piece of clothing itself but the repression against women it represents. (according to the western standards).
Although some women might be very happy wearing a burka, some are obviously not.
Muslim women who live in France are living in a paradox. As Muddy pointed out earlier, we are a country where being topless on a beach is not a big deal. Muslim women experience in their everyday lives women free to do whatever the heck they want. There are still a lot of them repressed (not allowed to have a social life, "stuck" in the kitchen, kind of thing. And the burka goes along with those values of the man is in charge of the family and tell the women what to do.
I think what France was trying to do is "free" those women who don't want to be like this anymore. What they didn't think of is the thousands of women who still want to wear a burka and now can't.
What I find ironic is that in order to free someone, they pass a law that restrict their rights.
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