你不得不佩服法国人。他们对身体的哪些部位应当遮盖、哪些不应遮盖，有着强烈的看法。

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

穆斯林过去对身体哪些部位应当遮盖、哪些部位不必遮盖，有着十分明确的看法。

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

法国人的观点建立在某些模糊、缺乏依据的形而上学关于人的尊严的观念之上，当然，还有对真主的否定。然而，他们的信念却无与伦比。

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.

穆斯林的观点建立在他们对真主的信仰、对祂律法的遵从，以及宗教与精神伦理的根基之上。然而，显然这一切并未在他们中的某些人身上激发真正的信念，至少没有达到法国人所拥有的那种信念。

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.

毕竟，法国人敢于主张己见，大胆宣称："这才是得体的，这才是正当的。"而一些穆斯林对此最多的回应，不过是："是的，你们大概是对的。但有些女性偶尔也想戴面纱，如果你们不介意，她们的选择应当得到尊重。如果你们不同意，那就是你们不尊重她们的选择，真可怜啊，呜呜呜。"法国人，或者其他任何人，凭什么要尊重这种说法？在他们看来，面纱从根本上就是对文明的冒犯，是一种可憎之物。对于自己在道德上深恶痛绝的事物，人们是不会表示尊重的。

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.

除了在道德层面上回应这个问题，我们本应拿出骨气，提出能够触及问题核心的更深层论证，锲而不舍地质疑法国和西方在人体、裸露、性与性别问题上所依据的各种假设与前后矛盾之处。然而我们却满足于坐在那里抱怨“尊重选择”和“宗教自由”之类的说法，这些空话根本不属于我们自己的话语体系，不是我们智识传统的一部分，我们之所以使用它们，只是因为我们觉得别人会接受。

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.

新闻快讯。他们不会的。

Newsflash. They won’t.

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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.