"The burka is not a religious problem, it's a question of liberty and women's dignity. It's not a religious symbol, but a sign of subservience and debasement. I want to say solemnly, the burka is not welcome in France. In our country, we can't accept women prisoners behind a screen, cut off from all social life, deprived of all identity. That is not our idea of freedom.”
Nicolas Sarkozy, 22 June 2009.
I wrote about the issue a while ago, but President Sarkozy articulates my basic ideas on the subject more succinctly. Concern for individual human liberty should always trump respect for human ideologies.
