I am extremely critical of extremist Islam, yes. It takes repression of women's human freedom as far as as any thought system ever has, I don't see how anyone can rationally refute that, and no one has.

I find the strategy of morally equating "modest dress" with the ext,reme of hiding the face itself, for the reasons I have quoted, disingenuous. There Is a continuum of oppression and repression, and while most religions do, they do so in a reasonable manner that does not result in preventing women from interacting with the world at large, as the the face veil is meant to do. And it affects me personally in two ways. First, by normalising what should not be normalised, i.e. the extreme erasure of women from pubic space. And second, when in fact others are forced to interact with a veiled woman, it is they who are being deprived of their human right to deal with other humans face to face, i.e. it is an unequal, unnatural interaction.



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