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- Title
On the Edge of Solidarity: The Burqa and Public Life.
- Authors
Baehr, Peter; Gordon, Daniel
- Abstract
Dislike among European publics for the Islamic full veil and the desire to ban it are often ascribed to nativist "Islamophobia." This article questions that assumption. It argues that, in political terms, the wearing of the burqa and niqab is inconsistent with Western norms of equality, the backbone of the citizenship ideal; and that, in social terms, the full veil erects a partition to interpersonal understanding and reciprocity. While the constitutional duty to protect religious freedom is a good argument in favor of tolerating the full veil, the practice of wearing it is at the edge of solidarity and injurious to the democratic public sphere.
- Subjects
BURQAS (Islamic clothing); ISLAMIC clothing &; dress; MUSLIM women's clothing; ISLAMOPHOBIA; SOLIDARITY; PUBLIC sphere; NIQAB (Islamic clothing)
- Publication
Society, 2012, Vol 49, Issue 5, p457
- ISSN
0147-2011
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1007/s12115-012-9584-2