I recently read this article about a muslim women who lives behind a head-to-toe Islamic veil, which shows only her eyes, that has been trying to become a citizen of France for at least 3 years. She has been denied citizenship twice: the first time her life of "total submission" was considered a reason for insufficient assimiliation into the culture. Recently, on appeal, the French Council of State ruled that, "she has adopted a radical practice of her religion, incompatible with essential values of the French community, particularly the principle of equality of the sexes" and was again denied. Now I am always skeptical about the government telling people how to live their lives, particularly because I am always thinking, "they will come for me next"... but do the frenchies have a point here? As Christians, we are told to be "...in the world but not of the world", so doesn't that mean we need to assimiliate to our community? There is no mention that the women was forced into this lifestyle, or being oppressed, but women as truely 2nd class citizens in Islam. How will we reach our community if we walk around with a bedspread over our head, covering us from head-to-toe.
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