Re: The Burka
 

You can walk off a mountain and keep your Balaclava on, also keep the helmet on in the street, on or off of a bike, no religion involved in either. Never mind masks for parties and Halloween.

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Helmets are situational; not like masses are walking around with them . Halloween and parties are also one-off circumstances, they don't happen everyday.

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I read The Bookseller of Kabul years ago. The author (a Norwegian woman) dressed in a burqa before heading out and about in Afghanistan. She commented that she received burqa compliments. That struck me as insane, but a completely understandable turn of events given the society. And I think it shows that women really aren't the problem: you can force women to stay covered, keep them inside, stop them mixing with unrelated males, but it's men's attitudes to women that need addressing. That website has completely missed the point. Trying to ban the burqa in the UK isn't the solution. Educating men who force women to wear it, and women who choose to wear it, as to why it's unnecessary is. But I guess that might be a leap of logic too far for some of the likers of that Farcebook page, judging by some of the (practically illiterate) comments.

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curious to know if anyone has seen it - as the whether they're really that ugly, could that be one of the reasons why they're covered up?

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True...but those women choose to wear super high heels...they aren't forced to wear them.

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:rolleyes:
Some women say they aren't forced to wear the burka - they want to do it and are proud.

I'm not keen on it but is it really a massive problem requiring a blanket ban? It should not be allowed in banks, security points and for professions like teaching and healthcare. As GG says, it's more about educating men.

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Most countries have laws on what you must wear, go naked and the police will turn up sooner or later in most places. Also cultural rules, try wearing a bikini in most jobs and you will be fired. All markers on the same spectrum.

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Why?

What or how does it infringe on you?

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True some do want to wear it...no doubt brainwashed by religion.

People are generally identified by their face...not by the boobs. Wait...maybe some are. :p

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I see nothing wrong with her postbox.

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Meh.

If a woman in a niqab/burkha walked into the bank then surely similar rules around motorbike helmets applies?

One is just more sensitive than the other but I can invent an x,000 year old religion of the helmet if I wanted and claim it being insensitive to remove my bike helmet.

Banning it completely though? Seems a bit far fetched. I wouldn't want to be the rozzer dishing out a fine at Friday prayers in Bradford.

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Abdullah Quilliam for one was born in Liverpool 160 years ago

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Burkhas and modesty eh?

Not in Kuwait....

Police arrest 3 girls for being naked under ‘abaya’

Police have arrested three girls — all GCC nationals, one of whom is a minor — for wearing no clothes except abayas at a café in a commercial complex in Salmiya, the Al-Rai daily reported.

According to the newspaper report, a boy reportedly told his mother that he saw a naked girl in the café and the mother then noticed the three girls and called the Operations Department of the Interior Ministry.

The three girls told police that they had consensual sex in an apartment, consumed alcohol and got drunk. The girls added that when they regained their consciousness, they came to the café to have coffee.

Police made a phone call to the father of the two GCC girls, but he said he could not come to Kuwait as he was busy. The girls were referred to the Criminal Investigations Department.

Great parenting skills eh?

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They are sometimes :sneaky:

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I was more interested in this story underneath:-

Man gets 15 years, 1500 lashes for sorcery

A Saudi court sentenced an African man to 15 years in jail and 1,500 lashes with the whip for embezzling money from many people through sorcery.

Members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice arrested the unidentified man, in his 50s, following complaints by many of his victims in various cities in the Gulf Kingdom.

"They seized him red handed after setting a trap for him in Riyadh…they found talismans, herbs, hair and other items used in his fraudulent activities,” Ajel Arabic language daily said.

So sodomise your daughter and kill her you get a few months whereas an African with a Paul Daniels magic kit gets 15 years and 1500 lashes. Utter Utter madness