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A 60-year-old female lawyer ripped a Muslim woman's Islamic veil off during a row in what French police described as the first known case of ‘burqa rage’.
The astonishing scene unfolded in a clothes shop in France when the pair came to blows before being arrested.
The 26-year-old Muslim convert was walking through the store in Trignac, near Nantes, in the western Loire-Atlantique region, when she overhead the lawyer making ‘snide remarks about her black burqa'.
A police officer added: ‘The lawyer said she was not happy seeing a fellow shopper wearing a veil and wanted the ban introduced as soon as possible.’
At one point the lawyer, who was out with her daughter, is said to have likened the Muslim woman to Belphegor - a horror demon character well known to French television viewers.
Originally posted by Illusionsaregrander
Well, freedom is freedom, and the lawyer is free to express her displeasure.
We use social pressure and public condemnation all the time in all societies, including Muslim societies.
In many Muslim countries, if her dress was out of line with the standards of the country she might be dragged off somewhere and lashed or even killed. She should be glad she lives in a moderate country where flouting the societal rules only gets her into a little scuffle.
A spokesman for Trignac police said that ‘two complaints had been received’, with the Muslim woman accusing the lawyer of racial and religious assault. The latter, in turn, had accused her opponent of common assault.
Originally posted by Illusionsaregrander
And yet you are a moderator, telling people what to do with their lives on this board, and restricting peoples free expression if they go too far.
Every society has rules, sometimes codified, often unspoken, that the members of that society conform to or they are ostracized or otherwise penalized.
Pretending that people have EVER, even in the freest of free societies, been able to disregard societal expectations is disingenuous.
Originally posted by niteboy82
I don't tell anyone what to do with their lives. Nice try at the moderator jab, and last I checked this is a privately-owned site.