Andrea Roedig
Andrea Roedig (b. 1962) is a trained philosopher, author and journalist. She served till 2006 as chief features editor of the weekly Freitag in Berlin. She has been living and working in Vienna since 2007.
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By Andrea Roedig
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Religion and State
Burqa, the cross we must bear
21 July 201014Der Standard Vienna
The ban on the burqa in Belgium and France, now spreading to Spain, the UK, and even to universities in Egypt and Syria, points up the hypocrisy and double standards of Western Christian culture, writes German philosopher Andrea Roedig. If the burqa is an instrument of oppression, isn’t the cross we worship really a morbid fascination with torture?