In France the government is preparing a Law against the wearing of the complete face-covering veils and even more worse the Dutch government is thinking about a same Law. They prefer to forbid the wearing of that kind of veils completely, but that will be unfeasible. But in the public transport, post-offices and other public buildings, the moslima’s would no longer be allowed to wear their veils. According the French this kind of clothing is not pro-women, covers all kind of extreme opinions and they see it as a threat against the public safety.

There are a several gradations of face-covering veils for our Muslims sisters, the simple kerchief, that only covers the hair and the other side the burkah that covers the complete body of the woman. Almost every country knows another name for the same article of clothing and it has no sense to name them all, like it has no sense for me and for every other men to proscribe the clothing that a woman should wear. It is only the right of the woman to choose to wear a burkah or any other kind of religious clothing, if she chooses it. I as a man and being a Muslim brother do not have the right to force or to forbid the wearing of kerchiefs or more covering veils. This is only an affair between my beloved Muslim sister and her Almighty and Merciful Creator. There is no government on this earth that has the right to infringe in the relation between religious people and Allah.

 

On the other side if a Muslim choose in complete freedom for wearing some kind of clothes, she is also completely responsible of her choices. If she does not want to wear a kerchief she has to justify this in front of Allah, does she choose for wearing a burkah, than she should take the risk for not getting some kind of public jobs. It is possible that for that reason she loses her right for an unemployment benefit. According mine opinion also people that wear tattoos in their face lose that right too. People have the freedom of choice, but are also responsible for the consequences of their choice.

To forbid face-covering veils is an most undesirable affair. It is only a very small part of the Muslim women, that chooses to wear that kind of veils. The small group finds her origin in the more extreme kind of Islam. If the government forbids the wearing of face-covering veils, than the complete social isolation of this group would be the result. There will not be any advantage for this group of women, although some supporters of this law have another opinion. They have the opinion that women who wear such kind of veil only does this cause they are forced by their repressing husbands. The western woman could not understand that there are really women, who covers their face or hair by their own free will. A Muslim woman that wears a veil, is according to most Western woman automatically oppressed and submissive to males. They forget how their kind of clothing is dictated by all kind of magazines and most of all by the wish of the Western man to be his wife the same way dressed up as the scanty clothed lady on a billboard near the highway.

 

The Law that will forbid wearing a burkah is not only an undesirable affair, because of the possible social isolation of the group of women that wants to wear a burkah is also a complete superfluous law. It is only another way to approach the Muslim community and to tease them. In the Netherlands and more European countries are laws that oblige you to identify yourself if some police officer ask you to do so. In Europe it is not usual to make a difference between men or woman, as well the policeman as the policewoman are allowed to ask you for your identification, if they suspect you for anything or if they only think it is necessary in that situation. Even the Muslim sister which is wearing a face-covering veil can be get in such a situation. For them it is very important to behave themselves inconspicuous. It is almost impossible for them to visit public affairs when they are wearing a burkah. There are already several laws that make the wearing of a burkah a very difficult affair. Although it is my opinion that this kind of laws are overacted and a damage to personal freedom and the fact that a person is innocent till the opposite will be proved.

The law against the wearing of the face-covering veil is undesirable, superfluous and even more than that completely impossible, cause what will this law forbid? Completely face-covering is only the burkah. The Muslim sister that wears a burkah can only by a thin piece of gauze have a look at the world surrounding her, it is impossible for her entourage to see only a glitter of her eyes. Is this kind of veil less worse than the veil, whereby the woman only by some woven lattice-work can look at the word around her and will this kind of veil be allowed? It is still hard to recognize the woman behind the veil. Do we have to go further in their nudity and the Muslim woman is able to see by a little gap in her veil, should this be allowed, cause we can see her eyes? How much of her body do I have to see to recognize her? Am I only able to recognize her as she completely uncovers her and her face or should I be able to see the beginning of her breast of even her thighs? For the Western woman it should not be such a problem for the most Muslim sisters an impossible affair.

 

I have already mentioned the undesirability, the superfluity and even the impossibility of this law. Even worse than this is the danger that will be enclosed by such a law. Today it will forbids the wearing of a complete face-covering veil of a Muslim woman, to-morrow they will take her kerchief and the next week all Muslims should wear a yellow halve moon on their clothes, so they are easily recognized by the islamofobe western society.

Nobody will only think about a law that forbids hair-coloring, it is very easy to change a person completely only by painting his hair. Give the right to every person to wear the clothes, that he or she chooses for. People are feeling some kind of fear if they are looking at a woman wearing a burkah and are getting paranoid if they see a little group of Muslim woman in such kind of clothes. Is this the fear for the unknown or the fear for their own lost in believing in God. Nobody should anybody forbid to wear clothes that he or she wants to wear because of his or hers relation to God.

No prohibition on wearing a burkah nor on the ringlets of some Jews and not on the black stockings of some Christians. Nobody should forbid or command this, only than the believer him or herself in his or her relation with Allah, the Mercifull.

Let us never bow for the fear off the stranger today, it could be your friend tomorrow. Allah has created a world big enough for us all and for some reason He created us with the feeling of tolerance in our hearts.