Two anonymous French women, one of them Muslim, caused a stir on the streets of Paris while dressed in niqabs and mini-shorts, reports the Montreal Gazette. Calling themselves “Niqabitches,” the duo said the act was a tongue-in-cheek way of criticizing France’s niqab ban.
Creatively challenging the French ban on the burqa: Can you “object to the tops while delighting in the bottoms?”
Two anonymous French women, one of them Muslim, caused a stir on the streets of Paris while dressed in niqabs and mini-shorts, reports the Montreal Gazette. Calling themselves “Niqabitches,” the duo said the act was a tongue-in-cheek way of criticizing France’s niqab ban, which they consider “clearly unconstitutional.” The Niqabitches, a pair of political science and communication students in their twenties, are becoming an internet sensation on youtube and twitter.
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To me, this display actually makes a case FOR banning the burqa.
The anonymity granted in the virtual world, which allows us to be more open, more daring, more ridiculous, more obscene, and so on without accountability is to me almost equivalent to what a face veil can grant people in the real world.