Essay On Banning The Burqa

Why should the burqa be banned? The burqa should be banned mainly to help the law enforcement in catching a criminal suspect. When someone is wearing a full body veil People are not able to recognize them and identify them as primary criminal suspect. Other arguments on the issue of banning the burqa that it promotes stereotypes and falsehoods. A third argument could be that the burqa is sexist and that it could hide abuse. These are the main arguments for the following through of banning the burqa that can be used as points in the argument. First the point of the helping of law enforcement. If the burqa was to be banned police and other law officials could more likely be able to have a more positive confidence in the identifying of criminal suspects. Other points in this section of the argument are that if a person has done a criminal act they would possibly cover their body with perhaps a burqa to hide from the public or also law enforcement. Also, the criminal will be able to stay away from the police for much longer periods of time without being caught for their act of crime. When the …show more content…
The burqa promotes sexism by hiding women for what they truly are. The sexism that protrudes from this is that some bigoted people will believe that in there perfect world women are separate from anyone else. Other ways the burqa could promote sexism is how that the women that are wearing the burqa are hidden from the rest of the world and some people will have a feeling that they are better than the women that are hidden by the burqa. Also the burqa could promote and hide abuse. It is proven that in countries that the burqa is more commonly worn have much higher rates of domestic violence than the countries in which the burqa is not commonly worn. Most women are forced to wear the burqa by a male abuser to make sure that the abuse is not shown in public. These are reasons in how the burqa could promote abuse and