- Islamists Behead Two Young Christian Boys…
- Muslim Mob Throws Acid on Christian Children, Burns Homes
- Obama Increases American ‘Aid’ to Muslim States…
- Six Mousavi Supporters Hanged in Iran…
- al-Qaeda Threatens to ‘Avenge’ French Burqa Ban with Killing…
“It is depressing that our President, in addressing the Muslim world, takes the most reactionary religious practice as the symbol of rights and identity. The klansman’s hood, remember, is also the symbol of a white Protestant religious ‘identity’ movement.”
Last week French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced his support for legislation to ban the burka, the dark, heavy and not-too-comfortable garment worn by many Muslim women. The question arises: Is this forcible French secularism run amok, or a prohibition that Americans, who often believe we have struck a better balance between church and state, might entertain?
I would say the latter.
Continue reading Christopher Hitchens Supports Burka Ban (Bunglawussi shrieks!)





