Sledgehammers and Nuts – Take Two

I wrote earlier this month about the intention of the Dutch Government to ban the burqa. It seems as though the lovely Rita Verdonk got her way last week, and the Dutch government are indeed going to press ahead with this ill-conceived idea. Not surprisingly, there’s a lot of discussion about it.

 

Jill, over at Feministe, summarises much better than I could, why the proposed ban is a bad idea. It is not going to help the process of integration one jot, in fact it’s going to make things worse on all sides.

 

Verdonk is a menace. I hope that in tomorrow’s elections, the Dutch electorate will throw a spanner in the works.