JUST PHILOSOPHISING - ON THE DESTRUCTIVE AND MISGUIDED EXCESSES OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS. THE END....

Subscribe to a principle and/or practice, which is likely to put their own freedom, and even their lives, at risk further down the line. That is now prudent.

It is not consistent or compatible with the mindset which says humans must rise above the traditions, the customs, and the orthodoxies  which hold them enslaved to the past. 

If they/we are to continue to evolve and realise a more humanocentric and enlightened future.

And, in doing so and effecting the changes in Western societies, have, along with other, made the sacrifices which were required. 

Not to raise questions about and frankly debate serious and important issues, like the implications and significance of wearing of burqa in the West.  

Would be both negligent and complicit with the guardians of this misogynistic and archaic tradition. 

It is the case that people, in ever age or epoch, have to make choices. We have to give up something we already have, in order to acquire something we do not have, but aspire towards achieving.

It is not prudent that a person or people should give up or place at risk their own freedom, in order to protect the questionable right of others to practice their own seemingly oppressive and misogynistic traditions. 

Especially as, taken to its logical conclusion, there could come a time, when the people who have already been freed of such practices, might again be forced to submit themselves to them. 

The present and, especially the future, should never, ever be sacrificed, forcefully or voluntarily, for the protection of the past; of orthodoxy.

There is, in my perspective, no place for burqa wearing in a relatively free and egalitarian society, whether it is an Islamic or non-Islamic one. But especially societies in the west. 

It is a foolish and reckless person who would seek to justify its wearing on the grounds of 'freedom of expression and/or of choice.' 

Or on the grounds that they are confronting 'Islamophobia' or racism. Opposing the wearing of the burqa is non of those things. 

It is about advancing the continuing struggle of humans against the injustices of archaic and oppressive customs, traditions and orthodoxies. 

The fact that religions, all religions, fall into those categories, does not mean that they should be excluded from being examined with a view to removing their excess of misogynism, homophobism and other oppressive practices.

Those of us who consider ourselves to be 'non-Islamophic', non-racist and to be advocates of 'human rights.'  

Have nothing to fear or be ashamed of, in taking a stance against the wearing of the burqa in the West - indeed, even in Islamic societies. 

Instead, we should acknowledge our stance for what it really is; an attempt to defend women against continuing institutional misogynism and oppression. 

The fact that some submissive Muslim women have and are willing to accept this inferior and oppressive state of being, does not invalidate the logic of opposing it.