Why Should The Burqa Not Be Banned

To reiterate, the burqa is a long and loose piece of clothing worn by Muslim women, which covers their bodies from head to toe, in some cases including the eyes. The Burqa was mainly worn in the Middle East to symbolize that a woman was married, so other men couldn’t look at them in sexual ways. The Burqa is sometimes confused with the hijab. The hijab is a scarf that covers a woman’s head to chest, unlike the Burqa covering the whole body. The banning of the burqa in public is a very delinquent situation because it fights for the safety of individuals over morality and ethics since it can be used as a disguise but also an Islamic tradition for women to wear from exposing themselves to other males besides their husbands or fathers, but there is so much law reform can do since there is a big debate about whether the burqa should or should not be banned since it will destroy the
purpose of freedom. People should be allowed to express their opinion, culture, and style as long as it is not offensive or degrading.

The Burqa has cause huge criticism as it covers a person fully, which means that you are unable to view who is under the piece of garment, which raises identification and security issues. “Gunman disguised in burqa and sunglasses robs cash courier” DailyMail, 6 May 2010. This news article raised questions as to whether the burqa should be banned on not. This article talks about a gunman that was dressed from head to toe in a burqa and sunglasses, successfully robbing a cash courier. The man escaped without a trace and since the burqa is the most concealing of all Islamic veils, it left just a mesh screen as to what the burglar looked like. The man had approached the cash courier whilst he was parking his car in a car park and pointed a pistol directly at him demanding for him to hand over the money or get shot, the man was then handed the money and fled with a large amount of cash

Australia is a free country, this means that the people who live here have every right to express their opinion, culture and style as long as it is not offensive or degrading, therefore an individual has the right to choose what they want to wear regarding culture. No one should dictate how you live your life and most importantly limit or influence your preferences in this case regarding clothing. For example the government should not be able to ban jeans because the political party in power dislikes it.

The development of law reform in regards to wearing the burqa for individuals will allow for justice to be achieved as it will give the freedom for women to whom wish to wear the burqa, to be able to practice their religion freely without being questioned or harassed.
Banning the burqa will take out the essence of justice in Australia as it will not allow people to freely do whatever they want to do, or practice their religion how they would like to. New technologies are developing day by day, such as fingerprint scanning, which effortlessly reveals a persons identity from their finger, which means a muslim woman wearing the burqa will not have to worry about removing their burqa in order to reveal their identity. Fingerprint scanning is 99% accurate in results, this means that there are no issues raised regarding security reasons furthermore since the introduction of fingerprint scanning. If law reform allows women to wear the burqa, society as a whole will benefit from achieving justice as this will allow equality amongst people giving them freedom to wear and do what they want to an
extent.

To conclude, everyone should have a right to express themselves through what they wear as long as it is not offensive, and if these laws were to pass for the banning of the burqa, it would have an extremely negative effect to achieve justice for Muslim women but at the same time it would benefit the safety of the society by society knowing what the person that just walked past them looked like.