[MD] What is the intellectual argument about Islamic veil wearing?

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Heather Perella <spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com>:

>      What is the intellectual debate about Islamic
> veil wearing?  So far, as I've skipped a lot of these
> nude Isalmic veil wearing posts, I haven't seen what
> the intellectual debate is.  I know you want a law
> banning veil wearing, but I know law to be on the
> social level, yet, I also know the making of laws
> occur on the intellectual level with debates,
> thoughtful approaches with reasons (when it comes to
> western law).  Any attorney would need an intellectual
> foothold to convince any judge and jury, and the
> legislatures need a good intellectual argument as well
> to convince other legislatures.  This is not a simple
> cause I want it to be a law.  I'm seriously curious as
> to what the intellectual story is behind this veil
> wearing debate, as I said I didn't read and follow the
> posts that covered this topic last month.

"The selling out of intellectual truth to the social icons of organized
religion is seen by the MOQ as an evil act."  (Pirsig in his Copleston
Annotations)

Regards,
Platt



 


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