On Banning the Burqa...

Here's an essay on banning the burqa by a freelance journalist living in Turkey.

I liked it for several reasons, including that I think it does a good job of highlighting the notion that our moral/legal decisions do not exist in a vacuum. In the abstract, it can seem clear that rights/values are necessarily absolute. In the real world, however, there are times where circumstances and challenges dictate that the prudent course is to violate the values we typically view as inviolable. (Aphoristically, this is often described as "The Constitution is not a suicide pact.").

I'm not sure how convincing a case this makes for one not already ascribing to the viewpoint, but at least for me I thought it was well articulated and convincing. (I shamelessly note that she does mention the idea of civilizational confidence that I had described previously)