Law against burqa
In April, the French government came up to a decision to ban women from wearing burqa. The government claimed that they were bringing “gender equality” among the people and giving the women "more liberty" and "dignity". However, they were not realizing (or maybe they were ignoring)the fact that their religion asks them to wear those veils or niqabs and they will be going against their tradition if they don't do so. The women who stuck to their beliefs and refused to remove their veils were physically and verbally abused by the society. In real the government was not comfortable with the women hiding their faces behind a veil. So, for their own comfort they enforced a law against women wearing burqas and announced to the world that they were doing it for the maximum benefits of those women. This outrageous law is confining the women to their houses in order to be safe as the society has decided to take the law in their hands and abuse the people who do not follow it.
This article reminded me of the storyline of Ken Kesey's One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. In his story, Kesey tells us how the people in the asylum had been rejected, humiliated and ignored by the society and in order to cure and make them good enough for the society, they were sent to the mental asylum. But was it for the individual's good that they did that or their's? I think they were doing so to make themselves feel in comfort, like in the French burqa ban. In both the article and the story, the victims do not have a say and rules and laws are enforced on them. In both the cases society is a big threat to them and they need to hide from it.
Vocabulary:
1.A. " five months after the law was introduced, the result is a mixture of confusion and apathy."
B. Apathy: Absence or suppression of passion, emotion, or excitement.
C. The government's spiritual apathy restricted the country to make any temples.
2.A. "My quality of life has seriously deteriorated since the ban."
B. Deteriorate: To make or become worse or inferior in character, quality, value.
C. My grandmother's hearing deteriorated with time.
3.A. "One politician who backed the law said that women still going out in niqab were simply being 'provocative'."
C. Students involved in sexually provocative acts get expelled in Woodstock School.
