Donna Lundy

Today, France took a big step forward for women.

“In our country, we cannot accept that women be prisoners behind a screen, cut off from all social life, deprived of all identity,” President Nicolas Sarkozy said in a presidential address to the French Parliament.

“The burqa is not a religious sign, it’s a sign of subservience, a sign of debasement – I want to say it solemnly,” he said. “It will not be welcome on the territory of the French Republic.”

I totally agree with him and yet it worries me that the French want to start a religious issue. Religious wars are the ones that drag on forever and no one seems to win them.