French approve ban on burqas...

Watch the personal insults folks, need to hide a few posts here.

Slartibartfast wrote: I knew that whole ù thing would bite the dust. Boy, when it comes to harsh discourse, you gotta catch it while it's fresh.

No kidding. I'm glad I've been in on the action here.

timothy leary wrote: We should all get used to burqas because with the environmental decay on it`s way we will all be dressed in white hasmat suits, also I was  wondering would I be able to use burqa in scrabble......great word for getting rid of that troublesome "q"

How about aqua and quiet?  But you're right, when we enter the age of hazmat, we're going to feel silly for raising such a fuss about burqas...

Ban religion altoghter whuld be the best, but this is a good first step.

Sean Trane wrote: You don't understand much about anything. It's not my theory but most psychanalists.   ever heard of Freud, Nietzsche and the rest of the pack??? When I say that most comportamental traits are coming from childhood memories (I won't even say traumas, because this is not necessarily negative of course), I doubt most of them would tell me this is rubbish.... they came up with it.....   I'm not that sensitive, but when obvious issues and answers (like equal rights) are twisted to fit personal needs (the skidding into submission) just avoid losing the argument, then it stops being an honest debate.

is not rubbish but it has been subject to serious criticism from other psychological currents. Behqviorists or cognitive theorists or even modern psychodinamic theorists would hardly assume everything that Freud said as blind truth. Freud's conclusions lacked empirical evidence. I tend to agree with him in many issues but his word is not the law in psychology. That he "came up with it" doesn't make these statements any less false or true. Of course environment and upbringing mold character, but it's been a LONG time since sexual preferences not aligned to those deemed "normal" were viewed as disorders. And submissive persnolaties are not necessarily an outcome of twisted childhood.

Also, Nietzche was not one "of the pack". He was a philoshopher who pretended to knoe the human mind and soul. For all his greqt analysis, he was also a sexually frustrated anomally whose word is even further from the truth than others.

A Very Intelligent Man wrote: You sir, are a dick.

okay I think the SeanTrane-bashing has run its course, I don't like to see someone ganged up on no matter what they've said, so how about giving it a rest .. and "you sir are a dick" is not exactly a brilliant response

But don't you realise that in spite of being camouflaged by politics, ethics, philosophies, great (and not so great) authors, at the bottom of it all everyone is being taken for one big ride?

It is my firm belief that after the fall of the Eastern Block some new enemy had to be created by any means possible, and the Muslims just got handed the ticket. Could have been anyone else: The southern half of the globe, the Eskimos, or the Austarlians. In this case the Muslims were just the unlucky ones.

Hence this burqa ban. Just try and see through the smokescreen. Religions are ideal targets, IT'S ALL PROPAGANDA! THE WAR MASCHINE MUST GO ON!

BaldFriede wrote: This is not about the burqa at all. It is playing on islamophobia. Sarcozy is a populist. His whole record shows he has never been one for civil liberties, and now he suddenly wants to liberate the poor Islamic women? Nonsense. He is just distracting from the other problems he has.

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JJLehto wrote: CinemaZebra wrote: You sir, are a dick. Bump?

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Edited by Jim Garten - July 19 2010 at 10:16