«To anticipate it: I do not support the senders of the heating initiative.They are on the far right, and that fulfills me with discomfort.In the seven years in which I live in Switzerland, I have learned too often that resentments come from this corner against minorities.Nevertheless, I am clear for the burqa ban.Because why should Muslim women cover themselves at all?Why are we considered seductors or as sweets that you have to cover to keep the flies away?Why don't Muslim men wear out?They seduce us women too.
Since the full veil is nowhere in the Koran, so it is not even a religious bid, there is only one answer for this: women are granted a power that needs to be checked at all costs.Burka and Nikab are only used to humiliate women to degrade them into inferior beings.The covering is therefore neither a statement for female self -confidence nor for female authorization, as can sometimes be heard in the current debate, but an expression of a patriarchal power over women, at the same time symbol for an extremist ideology, Islamism.And I can't accept that.
I am aware that there are many feminists who are against the ban on the heating, because they believe that every woman has the right to dress as she wants, even if it should mean that she is from headto cover foot.I understand this attitude and share it too.But the women who defend the burqa or defending the right to cover here in Switzerland do so as citizens of a free society in which the individual development is above everything.You don't have to think about what you are wearing.
All the more you should put yourself in the skin of those women who cannot decide freely whether you prefer to go to the park in bikini or in Nikab today;who deteriorate the veils, but have to cover themselves up, because otherwise they are considered bad Muslims or as consolidators who violate the norms of their societies - and often pay for them with their lives.The fact that the Nikab is also a symbol of Islamism is almost entirely excluded in the debates on the ban on changing.
I do not know whether this is due to naivety or ignorance, but the discussion is imperfect if we do not take this aspect seriously.Because Islamism is a global political project that aims to build a state on the laws of the Sharia, and the Islamists have a mission: they let mosques build, distribute teaching materials, convert "unbelievers" to Islam, all this serves to extendtheir power.There are currently small Islamist groups in Switzerland, but what will be in twenty or thirty years?
I witnessed the growing influence of the Islamists in Aleppo: My 60-year-old sister graduated in 1980.On the final photo of her class, just two or three women wore a headscarf.A generation later, in my class, there were only two or three women without a veil.With the headscarf, the Nikab, both symbols of political Islam, and the stronger it spread, the more radicalized the society - which ultimately prepared the breeding ground for IS.
I'm not against Islam, I'm a Muslim myself.But today you are excluded from the community and are considered an enemy if you do not commit yourself to the fundamentalist worldview - and I also observe these tendencies in this country.For example, when French President Emmanuel Macron defended the Mohammed cartoons last October, there were only two fronts in my Muslim environment.Either you were for Macron or Islam.Anyone who supported Macron was considered anti -Islamic.There was hardly anything in between.That worries me.
