Ya kamata a yaba wa Faransawa. Suna da ra'ayi mai karfi game da wadanne sassan jiki ya kamata a rufe, kuma wadanne bai kamata a rufe ba.

You have to admire the French. They have strong views about what parts of the body should and should not be covered.

Musulmi a dā suna da ra'ayoyi masu ƙarfi game da waɗanne sassan jiki ya kamata a rufe, waɗanne kuma bai kamata a rufe ba.

Muslims used to have strong views about what parts of the body should and should not be covered.

Faransawa suna kafa ra'ayoyinsu ne a kan wasu rashin tabbas, marasa tushe na falsafar ruhi game da mutuncin ɗan adam, da kuma, hakika, ƙin Allah. Sai dai imaninsu ba shi da misali.

The French base their views on some vague, baseless metaphysical notions of human dignity and, of course, a rejection of God. But their conviction is unmatched.

Musulmi suna kafa ra'ayoyinsu bisa jajircewarsu ga Allah, dokokinSa, da kafuwar da'a ta addini da ta ruhaniya. Amma da alama duk wannan ba ya zaburar da wasu daga cikinsu da gaskiyar yarda irin wadda Faransawa ke da ita, aƙalla ba irin yarda da Faransawa ke more wa ba.

Muslims base their views on their commitment to God, His laws, and the grounding of religious and spiritual ethics. But apparently all that does not inspire real conviction in some of them, at least not the conviction the French enjoy.

Bayan haka, Faransawa a shirye suke su tsaya kan matsayinsu, su ce a fili, “Wannan shi ne abin da ya dace. Wannan shi ne abin da yake daidai.” Mafi yawan abin da wasu Musulmi za su iya cewa a martani shi ne, “Eh, watakila kun yi gaskiya. Amma watakila wasu mata suna son sanya nikabi lokaci-lokaci, kuma ya kamata a girmama zabinsu idan hakan ya dace da ku. Idan kuma bai dace ba, to abin kunya ne ku ki girmama zabinsu, kukan kura ya yi yawa.” To me ya sa Faransawa ko kowa zai girmama hakan? Suna ganin cewa nikabi a asali abin cin fuska ne ga wayewa. Suna ganin laifi ne mai girma. Babu girmamawa ga abin da mutum ya ga yana da muni a dabi'a.

After all, the French are willing to stake a claim and say boldly, “This is what is proper. This is what is right.” The most some Muslims can say in response to this is, “Yeah, you’re probably right. But maybe some women want to wear a veil every now and then and their choice should be respected if that’s OK with you. And if not, then shame on you for not respecting their choice, boo hoo hoo.” Why should the French or anyone else respect that? They believe that the veil is fundamentally an affront to civilization. They believe it is an abomination. There is no respect for what one finds morally detestable.

Maimakon mu magance batun a kan matakin ɗabi'a, maimakon mu tsaya tsayin daka mu yi muhawara mai zurfi wacce ta shiga cikin tushen batun, mu bincika da ƙarfi zato da rashin daidaiton da ke tattare da halayen Faransawa da na Yammacin duniya game da jikin ɗan Adam, tsiraici, jima'i da jinsi, sai dai mu zauna muna korafi game da "mutunta zaɓi" da "'yancin addini" da duk wannan maganar banza wacce ba ma ta harshenmu ba ce, ba ta cikin al'adarmu ta ilimi ba, amma muna amfani da ita ko da haka saboda muna tunanin wasu za su karɓa.

Rather than address the issue on that moral level, rather than find a backbone and make the deeper arguments that cut to the core of the issue and doggedly interrogate the assumptions and inconsistencies underlying French and Western attitudes about the human body, nudity, sex, and gender — rather than do this serious work, we are content to sit and whine about ‘respecting choice” and “religious freedom” and all this nonsense which is not even our vocabulary, it’s not a part of our intellectual tradition, but we use it anyway because we think others will accept it.

Labari mai zafi. Ba za su yi ba.

Newsflash. They won’t.

Ina yabon Faransawa. Da a ce wasu daga cikin waɗannan Musulmi suna da kashi ɗaya cikin dubu na ƙudurin ku, da Musulmi ne za su riƙa saita ƙa'idojin sutura a gare ku, maimakon akasin haka.

So a tip of the hat to the French. If only some of these Muslims had an ounce of your conviction, it would be Muslims setting standards of dress for you instead of the other way around.