05/10/2004
Let's Forbid Other Cultures

"Some practices from foreign cultures are getting our level of civilisation down".
A Flemish Minister (government, not relidion) seems to have declared this in an interview with the quality -let's not get into that now- newspaper De Standaard.

And this highly educated visionary -named Patrick Dewael and far from being considered as an extremist in Flanders- is not talking about wars for oil against another religion, keeping prisoners of war indefenitely without any rights, putting mostly colored people on the electric chair or other expressions of our high level Western civilisation.
No, he is talking about a piece of clothing he says is used to oppress women.
Let's see, the (fe)male body, the one that is endangered by obesitas and anorexia, the one that is endlessly exploited in advertising, the one that doesn't get enough exercise or gets abused in topsport; the body you can do about anything with within the norms of a high level civilisation,
with the sole exception of covering it completely,
that should be forbidden by law.