Overreacting?
This fucking deserves an overreaction and the Europe case you bring regarding smoking is hilarious and would have made sense if Europe forbids the Arabs or the Chinese from smoking in public places but lets the others smoke.
I said in case of smoking they're banning half the picture while the rest is to come.
Look at it this way, somking is bad. Neither woman nor men should be allowed to smoke in public places, I think that's obvious. So banning the woman from doing just that is the first step from a full ban and since we already agreed how devastating public smoking is, woman have nothing to complain about. This is like making a law on prohibiting smoking weed in the streets and making woman the priority here, it should be for both genders no doubt, but prohibiting it for woman is far from a sexist aproach but rather a step in canceling this disease while banning men is yet to come.
And this case would be equal to forbidding smoking in public places, not forbidding onlt the women from smoking in public places. I, as a non-Muslim male will also be forbidden wearing the burqa. Hey, it might be my freedom of choice to wear a burqa, get inside the ladies room or inside a bank and rob it, but they won't let me do it. You see, they won't let me wear it too, not just the women.
You're talking about gender equality there while Im talking about freedom of choice which that ban clearly violates. Whether you're a man or a woman you've the right to wear whatever you want, whether it's a funny hat, your team's jersey, your African traditional clothes or simply a Burqa. Now that Burqa is to be banned while it's clear that only muslim woman are the one being targetted here for nothing but violating the "European traditions" enthough freedom of choice is marketed to be a European most proud invention.
So yea, banning woman from smoking in public places which is in fact dangerous on their health among with others is clearly much understandble than banning woman from wearing a burqa in public places for nothing but being a violation for the European way of life. Hamas suddebly looks much more democratic now than France regarding that.