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Fear Factor: Europe bans the burqa | openDemocracy

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Curated: 09/11/2010 from www.opendemocracy.net/herman-salton/fear-factor-europe-bans-burqa
Fear Factor: Europe bans the burqa | openDemocracy

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Lucid essay on the rationale behind this absurd legislation - "Europe’s systemic fears involve nothing less than the extent of her territorial and cultural boundaries. To put it bluntly, an aged Europe feels under threat from a world she once dominated, but which she never properly understood. It is this post-colonial world that is coming back to haunt her. And it is wearing a burqa."

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