A green City Council candidate Vernier wears an "Islamic" ... Nice stunt, but what behind? of confusion and amnesia. Confusion, first, between individual freedom and a religious proclamation transformed into political proclamation. Or choose to wear the veil is merely a choice of dress, aesthetic, choosing an outfit, an appearance and there was nothing more to say on the choice of wearing pants whose size is somewhere between the knee and the talus, or it is a religious choice that does not to clutter the political space because the bulky, the parasite and it adds confusion to an already confused between the general political and religious. It is true that in a time when the extreme right is dressed in garb of secularism, religious alienation would be wrong not to make up color left. And then there's amnesia, in this stunt. Because it should be right well to remember that these are women and only women, to whom the order to veil, to cover, s'empaqueter ...
Nihil sub sole novi
Whether a candidate is converted into heroin concealed in the multicultural tolerance, and that all his speeches we retain only the veil she wears is not so much scandalous distressing. In itself, the veil is indeed no more Islamic than Christian or Jewish: it is first and above all patriarchal. There are two generations ago, all over the Mediterranean, social prescription that was the hair-covered women is a veil, a shawl, a hat, whatever as long as it covers. And until the Great War, a woman emerging bareheaded, "human hair" was either a whore or a revolutionary, even when they consented to make the difference between the two. And it came from far back millennia, and an old male anxiety, fueled by the desire to leave a legacy to their offspring and not that of his wife's lover. And so Mr. Mrs. locked, physically, symbolically, socially, to ensure that children are well Madame his kids to him, sir. Especially boys. Locking up women, or at least remove their face in relation to other men: It was this order that another justification, trivial, that he had actually religions have them filled. This means the role of watchdog of social order, even more than the moral, the religious prescription (or rather the requirement to social religious pretext) plays when she can. Religion is only pathology, alienation, folklore, if it produced bubble and continuous fatwas standards and had the claim, and sometimes the power to impose them. 40,000 people protested in Lahore (Pakistan) to support the murderer of a provincial governor who had voted for the repeal of the law punishing with death on blasphemy ... This power, Christianity has in our region, lost. Islam, not yet. And other religions, not more (Independence, India proscribed the Hindu caste system: it's still there ...). But these regulations have no weight if no one voluntarily adhered. This means that there is bondage volunteer in the claim by women to these requirements as theirs. That compliance is voluntary patriarchal traditions do not change their meaning, except to further increase the pressure on those to whom they are imposed-pressure which immigrants are the first victims: the return consistently to their ethnic origins and religious deprive it of any real possibility of finding them other than they have been handed down, often by patriarchal social and cultural systems which, precisely, they denied any autonomy, and any right to define themselves. But even this view, prohibit the veil, hijab, niqab or burqa as a fashion dress "contrary to our way of life," and, by definition, do not prohibit women only, since ' alone are packaged, would not be much better than forcing them to wear it done elsewhere. So we have to resist two temptations, contradictory, but also comfortable enough: that of j'men-care less ironic, and that of our own fundamentalism. Or, to adorn a little more glorious references, those we take to the Voltaire of the Calas Case without having the genius, or take us to Saint-Just, without having the courage. It is in this fight against religious alienation as others: if the left the desert, it does not come whining that the far right seized it, by not only against leading religious alienation competitor of the one, chance, we have inherited in our region ... A Green verniolane takes the veil? The PDC is considering taking up the cross as its emblem? Let us read The Nun Diderot ...
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