Spain ails you!
The Catalan city of Lleida has been a pioneer in banning the Islamic headscarf integral - the burqa - in local and municipal venues.
The ban comes into force today, December 9 in July after it passed legislation in this regard, ratified in October and later endorsed by the courts.
The new policy states that you can limit access to "persons who bear the full veil, hoods, hats or other clothing or accessories that prevent or hinder the identification and visual communication people ".
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the use of these items is not common in the city but from time to time, the city decided the ban Lleida after a vote of the major local parties in power to defend the rights of women.
The Watani Islamic Association per the Llibertat i la Justicia appealed to the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia, the decision arguing that it violates fundamental rights and requested the freezing of its implementation.
The court "had not yet delivered," he told AFP the president of Watani, Murad the Buduhi, because "the council expected to provide documentation justifying the measure." "The only association has appealed the action is the minority group that exists within the Islamic community in the municipality," said the mayor instead.
in Lleida city of some 120,000 residents, have registered most of the Muslims in the region, dedicated to the fruit farm, which requires large immigrant workforce, it said. The court, "for now has ruled that the interim suspension does not requested in the application and the ordinance comes into force" and "will be decided later on its legality or not, "said Ros.
In terms of implementation, Ros said," be warned first and then will look fine if recidivism. "" I feel sorry for have to make this legislation but I have pride in being the first city established a "letter of citizenship 'which includes duties and rights to all inhabitants, especially those who have joined lately," he said.
My thoughts
principle, by social anthropologist by simple man of this world, I deny any and all as full of ethnocentrism. just as irrational. This episode one of them. A beautiful sad example. Begin and remain authoritarian imposing bans. This news coming from Spain is much more sexist and patriarchal that want to protect rather than pretentious. Male gaze, probably and surely Christian West. Infantilizing the Other. Respect the Other in their culture. Learn to look and see it in that context. Do not forbid you do not understand. Gulliver has a lot left to travel. Do not be proud. Let diversity is expressed. Culture is often almost unintelligible in canals and incommensurable with the translation for those who do not belong to it. Dwell on this issue because as Americans we should know as well that is the white European and Christian who are different. While we accept both long history of cultural trait contrary to ours.
little more than 500 years have passed since the English arrived in this land of conquest and superb air of discovery. Then the woman's nakedness meant their native wildness and an inability to qualify for human and animals become suitable and available only to fornication manu militare and sword in hand.
Volume of Todorov and the problem of the Other, the next episode happened and what is worse, told with grace and in favor of impunity, on the occasion of Columbus' second voyage to the land, a story made in a letter to a friend in the Motherland, for a gentleman, a fellow of the current and advocate for women undergoing severe Mr. Mayor of Lerida:
"Women: while Columbus is only interested in them as a naturalist, do not forget this is not the For other members of the expedition
Read this story that does the same Michele de Cuneo, a nobleman of Savona, an episode occurred during the second trip, a story of a thousand, but has the advantage that is told by its protagonist.
"While in the boat, I a beautiful woman captive Caribbean, that the aforesaid Admiral gave to me, and after that I had taken my cabin, and while she was naked as usual, I felt like idling with it. I wanted to fulfill my desire but she would not consent to such treatment and gave me their nails would have preferred not to have started ever. But watching this (and to tell you everything until the end) I took a rope and gave him the lashes, after which began a loud cry, such that you would not have believed your ears. Finally we get to be so much in agreement that I can tell you that seemed to have been raised in a school for whores. "
Bravo by Western Christian white male! Humiliated by a woman dressed in brown or even saw, however save the trance and honor, English gentleman finally pure speech and vile scourge the subject as a person and rapes a woman. Just ; beast to tame and teach to satisfy lust of conquest. Of course. Even when the procedure should apply lashes or so. That does not matter.
will not do further analysis. I shall not arguments. Because it should not be necessary. And met all recently, where ban was the way to control where the handling time against each other, kept the old principle of divide and power. I do not know what the Catalan public opinion on the issue. I believe that they will not feel threatened by the hidden body of some Muslim women passing the quiet streets of his village. I feel sorry that intolerance still equipped so rigidly the human mind.
sometimes disgusts me and unfortunately many such hypocrisy chokes. I imagine the scandal that would arm the mayor's good if the Koran in response beautiful women make you taste, take off their burkas and stroll, as of old Caribbean women, naked, peaceful and free at last now if forever, the peaceful and quiet streets and avenues of Lleida. 
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