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Mathieu Bock-Côté: "The veil as a political symbol"

2022-09-23T18:22:42.018Z


CHRONICLE - Far from representing a form of moral modesty evoking that of our grandmothers, this explicit marker of politico-cultural conquest symbolizes the exhibitionism of identity and the exhibitionism of virtue.


The events that are currently stirring Iran are making the rounds of the planet.

Their scope is clear: thousands of women are rising there, demanding the right to live without a veil and freed from the oppressive control of the aggressive and finicky morality police who circulate in the cities of the country.

They gather around a woman who recently died after being beaten up by the police, Mahsa Amini, who in Iran had become a true martyr of freedom, who died for having "badly worn" her veil.

But French neo-feminism struggles to show solidarity with Iranian women and continues its full-time campaign against a fantasized Western patriarchy.

Even more, he willingly makes the veil a symbol of freedom, at least in the West, because, through it,

The malaise of neo-feminists is electoral and ideological.

Electoral, insofar as the left…

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Source: lefigaro

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