Unveiled: It's now NO burqa or €405 fine in Netherlands

Tell yourself that.

It's a bit surprising that it's the Netherlands passing this law, but it's a good law in my opinion. At best the niqab is compatible with western culture, and at worst it's a vehicle for oppression.

Terrible law tbh, people here chanting about 'equality'. does the burqa create any sort of social problem/ inequality?
What a woman chooses to wear is her personal choice and governments should have no right to enforce their decisions.

At one end of the scale, the main social problem is that those who do not wear burqa's are often suspicious and/or sometimes frightened of those who wear them and at the other end, it creates a group of women who are then viewed as socially detached from normality.

Did you mean incompatible?

What the hell I can't believe **** like this is still happening
How on earth do you feel threatened by one Muslim woman casually shopping for groceries and etc in her burka? It doesn't affect anyone and if someone tries to moan that it's threatening they can go suck on one cause that's just being ridiculous, what happened to cultural diversity?

How on earth do you feel threatened by one Muslim woman casually shopping for groceries and etc in her burka? It doesn't affect anyone...

It does, under the surface.

Since it is largely seen as a symbol of oppression, Western women for one are unlikely to accept it.

However, even as a western man, even looking sideways at a woman wearing one brings a certain unease to both parties.

In before people bring up nuns.

Everyone should be subject to the same laws. If you can't cover your face with a motorcycle helmet when you go to a bank you can't with a burqa simple as. It's about equality for all citizens not just women. I

True

It used to be people fighting for Equality before the law

Now it seems we have a group desperately fighting for Inequality