Business ethics - The Burqa

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A major media campaign began in France on June 2009 at the initiative of a member of the communist party joined by a majority of UMP's, who wanted to condemn the wearing of burqas and the niqab in Public schools and other public services. This campaign has been amplified by the President of the Republic who wanted to defend the idea of a secular country. Thus a parliament commission is actually dealing with the idea of banning the burqa (or the niqab) in France. Let us start by a definition of the word burqa. The word burqa sometimes spelled burka, or more rarely bourka is commonly used to define a full veil. It is a generic term to designate the kind of clothing that hide the entire bodies of Muslim women. The burqa (new version) is a recent invention of the fundamentalist Salafist movement. With this garment invented only about twenty years ago, the imprisonment of women is more than with a full chador since there are gloves to hide their hands, and feet are also hidden. The full veil, which emphasizes Islamic tradition, has been present over the last twenty years in the most retrograde parts of the Muslim communities around the world. Many of Islamic chiefs of cults around the world judge that wearing the burqa considerably exceeds this tradition, and it is not based on any Koranic injunction. They prefer the veil, leaving the face uncovered. Some of them rather like the absence of any veil and the self-interiority of the religious practice. Now let us deal with this issue: Can you become French when wearing the burqa, the garment that fully covers women, except for eyes, in the most rigorous Muslims countries?

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[...] Therefore we drift to another social issue, that of parity and women's rights. Is burqa incompatible with the rights of women? The main argument of those who would like to ban the burqa is the defense of the rights of women. The full veil is an untenable sign of submission of women to their husbands. Yes. Maybe. Even probably. But can we affirm that? The problem is precisely that these women do not complain about that. By conviction or submission? Go figure! [...]

[...] A religious or cultural sign? Here, then happened again the controversy over the role of religions, and Islam in particular, in France. The debate on wearing of "veil" into public school had already raised this issue several years ago: Should France, with tolerance and wisdom, accept the public expression of religious identity and cultural difference? Or should she, on the contrary, indicate clearly the bounds beyond which the principle of secularism which is a fundament of the Republic, would be violated. [...]

[...] Burqa is a symbol of segregation between men and women. An unacceptable symbol of inferior status of women in this conception of Islam. How could we contradict them? Before dealing with the main issue of this report, I will try to show the place of the women in Muslim countries where the burqa is imposed. Other countries a. Afghanistan Afghanistan is an under-developed country but showed some hope of progress towards democracy after the devastating war that had opposed him to the communist giant. [...]

[...] But a third parameter could be include: Human Rights. To start we will emphasize all the different stakeholders in this debate: Dealing with this subject, there are according to me, three main stakeholders. First, there is the French government, which desires to ban the burqa because it thinks that is an infringement on the personal freedoms on the national territory. The French government desires to ban this wear on public places, such as schools, public transports etc., because when a woman wears this type of cloth, it is difficult to know who are really under this cloth. [...]

[...] But here in this film, inhumane punishments and public killing are real and permanent. Clearly, girls and women are more exposed to this kind of criminal treatment since they are subject even at the basis of the Taliban's plan to legalized discrimination which is revealed through the total annihilation of text their rights into economic, political and social life. The situation is right clear in this country: a substantial number of women are not allowed to access to any form of schooling beyond the age of ten. [...]