History Write Up On The Banning of Burqas in France

Here is a write up i made in History Class on the French government banning the wearing of Burqas:

--Obviously France does not have a democracy so therefore people do not have the same freedoms as we do here. The government here has certain restrictions on what it can and can’t do. France does not have such harsh restrictions. The government is France is a ‘Statutory’ government, meaning they can make certain decrees that they sign and those laws then become law. In other words, once a decree is made, the French government can do almost everything they want.

“France fines comedian 10,000 euros over anti-Semitic stunt” ~The Jewish World

“A French court agreed yesterday to consider a complaint brought by a conservative MP against the rapper Monsieur R for referring to France as a slut in a song.
The court in Melun, south of Paris, said it would rule early next year on the complaint filed by Daniel Mach, MP for the Pyrénées Orientales, who said he had the backing of 150 MPs but was bringing the action "on my own personal account, because I feel assaulted by these insults. They are a real attack on the dignity of France and of the state."

Thus here are examples of the French government silencing freedom of speech. People seemed perfectly okay with that. So why then is saying you can’t wear Burqas any different than saying you can’t include certain lyrics in songs.

A Hmong Classmate informed me that when his family moved here they had to adapt to the culture and give up some things. In their culture they can have multiple wives. Here you just don’t do that. He said unless you try and blend in you will never make it, so it will be helpful to try and melt into society.

Also as far as religious persecution, the Quran never specifically says that women have to wear burqas. It only says that they must be covered. So for the girls in my class are they not covered? Is (name withheld) just sitting there naked? No. She is covered. Wearing clothes is being covered. So it is not even religious but more a strange interpretation of the quran and an insecure sense of fashion.

Again I go back to my original point, the French government can decree what it wants. That is the system there. Here it is different. Here the government is chained down to the constitution, (or at least is suppose to be). So what is illegal or not authorized in the US, is not always unauthorized in other places. In Amsterdam marijuana is legal, yet it is illegal here in the states. These are two different and incompatible government system; liberty and tyranny.