Kopvoddentaks

This word refers to a speech of extreme right-wing Dutch politician Geert Wilders. He proposed that Muslim women should pay a tax if they wanted to wear a head-scarf. He invented a new word for head-scarf: 'kopvod', which is two times degrading. For “head” he uses the word 'kop', which in Dutch is used for animals, and for scarf he used 'vod', which is a 'rag'.

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