In praise of the islamic veil

There are incessant debates in France on the Islamic veil. A whole section of society considers this tradition to be an attack on freedom. This is false and smacks of class xenophobia.

Because all these french well-meaning people confuse power and freedom. Obviously, Place Vendôme is a place of power and not a place of freedom. A woman who wears jewelery made of so-called “precious” materials uses a very ancient tradition of power to enhance herself. Like a client of prostitutes elsewhere. And a tradition much more violent towards men, women and children than a simple veil.

Because, make no mistake, a humanist will prefer a veiled woman to a woman set with gold or diamonds. The first is freer, more humanistic and more ecological than the second.

Rather than an eternal incantation to secularism, very open to criticism especially when it becomes the superiority of the State over the Church, the French would do better to take an interest in the conditions for obtaining their raw materials (gold, diamonds, uranium , textiles, computers, etc.) and let veiled girls go to public school as is the practice in the United States.

Finally, I would remind all French men and women that what is sacred in France is the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen and not jewelry. In short, let’s rediscover our values and, instead of blaspheming the Islamic veil, that is to say a piece of fabric, let’s blaspheme the Place Vendôme, made up of victims’ jewels: after all, a white woman who wears a diamond of Apartheid is easy to caricature.