Dicks who don't like taking responsibility for being dicks

You know who doesn't care about religious freedom? Dicks. Secular dicks.

Christopher Hitchens: Learn from France - and consider banning the burka

And you know who writes incomprehensible bullshit like this?

"...One cannot be absolutely sure that no woman has ever donned it voluntarily, but one can certainly say that, in countries where women can choose not to wear it, then not wearing it is the choice they generally make.

This disposes right away of the phony argument that religious attire is worn as a matter of 'right.' It is almost exactly the other way around: The imposition of burkas or even head scarfs on women - just like the compulsory growing of beards for men - is the symbol of a denial of rights and the inflicting of a tyrannical code that obliterates personal liberty.

Western masochism about other people's 'culture' often obscures this obvious fact. Think of the things that we all have to do now, like submitting to humiliating searches at airports, or showing our ID to people who have no "probable cause" for demanding it. Can we turn up at airport security wearing a bag over our heads? Can we produce a photograph that shows only our eyes through a slit? Of course not. Nor can anyone in a Muslim country (though of course in Saudi Arabia an unchaperoned women cannot turn up at the airport anyway).

And don't force me to say this, even though I will: One reason we have to undergo such indignities is because of faith-based suicide attacks on our civil aviation, and so far the perpetrators of this nightmare have not been caught wearing crucifixes or Stars of David around their necks."

Dicks who don't want to take responsibility for being dicks. That's what all this "don't force me, while I force you" bullshit has been about. This whole Orwellian mess is about dicks not wanting to take responsibility for what dicks they are.

Christopher is going to rid Muslim women of the subjugation of men by subjugating them to this own presumably benign manly code against the expression of their own religious beliefs.

He's such a sweetheart, isn't he?

Or maybe he's just a dick looking for an excuse to be a dick.

Seems to be a lot of that going around these days.

Believe it or not, I know the feeling. About time we cut this shit out.