Uh, It's Jayvee.
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Climate Adaptation: Breaking: France Bans Fracking Vote was: Conservatives for, socialists against. Not a typo. The bill allows gas drilling, but bans hydraulic fracking. Thus, it’s a comprise between sides - the socialists wanted a 100% ban on all drilling to protect the environment.
The French parliament voted on June 30 to ban the controversial technique for extracting natural gas from shale rock deposits known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the web sites of Le Monde and other French media reported.
The bill had already passed the National Assembly, the country’s lower chamber, on June 21, and on June 30 a Senate vote of 176 to 151 made France the first country to enact such a ban, just as New York State is preparing to lift a moratorium on the same method.
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“As a young american Muslim women who chose to wear the hijab against her mothers will at a young age, I find it repulsive that french politicians would consider this liberation. If a women is forced to wear the hijab/niqab, it is against the purpose of wearing the hijab in Islam. It’s actually unislamic. I feel as though a lot of people seem to think everyone who wears the hijab is forced to when it is actually a decision a women should take when she is ready and wants to. I also don’t understand the argument of ‘unveiled women can not wear whatever they want in Muslim countries’ On a recent trip to Morocco, a large number of tourists and Moroccan women wore bikinis to beaches, shorts and tanks on the streets, and nobody shunned them or told them to change. There were also a lot of veiled women who swam with everyone else in the ocean including myself. Forcing someone to dress how you please is terrible. Especially when a majority of the people who are enforcing it whether they be politicians or parents, are men who will never ever have to make that decision for themselves.” —wordsinvrsaid, in a submission to thepoliticalnotebook. (source)
I had to reblog this.
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This is such a good answer to a question about the burqa and the niqab’s being banned from being worn by women in France and how it is (in the asker’s opinion) fair and should be implemented universally.
I’m afraid I completely disagree. The burqa is not the problem. The hijab is not the problem. The niqab is not the problem. Islam is not the problem. A law that forces a woman not to wear the Islamic veil or head covering is as restrictive and paternalistic as a law that forces her to wear it. The West would like to think it could solve all the poor Arab women’s problems by simply making them unveil. The veil isn’t the problem, patriarchy is the problem. Governments and societies that tell women what is best for them to wear and what is best for them not to wear are the problem. Your argument about fairness is unfounded: just because there are oppressive laws in one place does not mean that there need to be oppressive laws in another place to balance things out. This is an infringement of the freedom of religion, of expression and of choice. If a woman wants to cover her face, she should do it. If she doesn’t want to, she shouldn’t.
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This:
Mr. Omar Waraich is one journalist I enjoy tweeting with. This question for the French government is ab-so-lute-ly perfect.
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French Senate votes to ban Islamic full veil in public: France's Senate has overwhelmingly approved a bill that would ban wearing the Islamic full veil in public. An interesting read plus interactive slides on the different Muslim veils on the impending ban on full veils such as niqab and burka.
