Einen Channel Gap…
… konstatiert die französische Journalistin Agnès Poirier in der “Times”, denn der Vorstoß französischer Parlamentarier, das Tragen der Burka zu verbieten, stößt in Großbritannien weitgehend auf Unverständnis. Und zwar nicht nur bei linken Multikulturalisten, sondern auch in konservativen Medien. So erklärt der “Telegraph” mit Zitaten junger Musliminnen “Why the burka is part of Britain”. In der “TImes” vergleicht Frank Skinner, den Vorschlag mit dem Vorgehen der Taliban, die ja auch eine Kleiderordnung durchsetzen. Rod Liddel ein Altlinker, der seinen Lebensunterhalt damit verdient, im “Spectator” über New Labour und die liberale Elite abzulästern, meint:
It is the division between the public and private — a tolerance of what people wish to believe in, what they should wear, but a steadfast refusal to append to these beliefs a sort of official moral equivalence — which should determine how we deal with Islam the ideology. In practical terms it might well mean the removal of the burqa from within state schools, so that all kids are treated equally and the state is not seen as conniving in the subjugation of women. Just as any girl who went to school dressed like one of the ladies in my hotel bar last night would be sent home sharpish. It seems, though, that whenever our politicians attempt to get to grips with Islam, when it is required that they ‘get tough’, they end up being illiberal, bullying and devoid of principle.
Wenige schwimmen gegen den Strom. Eine Ausnahme stammt vom Telegraph-Blogger James Delingpole, nach eigenen Aussagen “right about everything”, in einem ungezeichneten Leitartikel “Times” heißt es:
–––Among European liberals the burka is seen as a symbol of female subservience. And the freedom to opt for such deplorable status runs counter to other liberties regarded as more important in the hierarchy of freedoms: openness, transparency, equality and opportunity. Within Western society, the covering of the face negates all such fundamental rights. The mistrust, alienation and brake on communication engendered by a face veil were the basis of Jack Straw’s principled but contentious denunciation of the niqab. Such objections apply even more forcefully to the burka.