The Accidental Theologist

Today, Bastille Day, France’s new idea of freedom is banning the burqa.   “Allons enfants de la patrie” — for this you had a revolution?

Yesterday’s vote in the French National Assembly was practically unanimous (one sole nay),  and of course, per the French, has absolutely nothing to do with any kind of anti-Muslim sentiment.    A Dieu ne plaise! It was solely and absolutely for security reasons. So I’m celebrating the French contribution to freedom with a re-run of Let’s Ban Sunglasses.  After all, if the full Islamic veil is now to be  legally defined in France as  a form of criminal concealment, foiling identification by security personnel, why stop there?   Let’s follow the logic and make it easier for everyone to be identified:

Let’s ban sunglasses

and big floppy sunhats

and tinted contact lenses.

Let’s ban wigs

and hair extensions

and make-up.

Let’s ban beards

and clowns’ faces.

Let’s ban cosmetic surgery

and mustaches

and baseball caps

and hair dye

and skin lighteners

and spray-on tans.

Let’s ban and ban and ban

until there’s nothing left to ban any more

and then we’ll be….

safe?