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Comment author: Lightwave 07 October 2010 10:01:55AM 0 points [-]

All sides are in tacit agreement that (most of) the purpose of the burqa is to show allegiance.

Still, you'd agree there exist better or worse ways to show allegiance?

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 07 October 2010 02:45:28PM 0 points [-]

The French are not objecting to the implementation details. They are trying to prevent the group identity entirely.

Comment author: Lightwave 07 October 2010 09:22:59PM 0 points [-]

Are they? It seems to me nobody would be against them wearing a badge or something. You can also ban football t-shirts on the same grounds.

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