Yes to ban, no to bombs
This is a response to “Veil ban overreaches” [editorial, Opinion, April 26].
What could you not hide under a burqa or a niqab? People, especially in the Western world, should keep their thoughts to themselves and be grateful for attempts to minimize the dangers associated with such garments.
This happens to be the reality of the times and has nothing to do with the rights of good, Muslim women and everything to do with the safety of the general public, which is any government’s responsibility.
If you writers could tell the difference between a pregnant woman and a man wearing an explosive belt around his middle while walking about under a niqab, with only slits for the eyes, or a burqa with netting over the face, then you are much more talented than the rest of us.
— Ruth Quiban, Seattle
Beggars can’t be choosers
Confronting “the veil” is the opposite of Islamophobia. The French are being courageous in confronting it. France has a right to expect immigrants to become Frenchmen. Immigrants could wear the burqa at home.
Immigrants need to join the country they moved to, not demand acceptance for everything they want to bring. I expect people who live here to become Americans; The French should have the right to the same.
— Jackie Harden, Seattle