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Ban The Burka!
Topic Started: Apr 19 2010, 09:55 PM (49 Views)
danrush
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A great artical i read in a paper recently.
Increasingly often these days it isn't the green light that first jolts me into reality.
Rather, its a woman covered head to foot in black, eyes peeping through slits and moving through the western fashions. No matter how many times this happens i cannot overcome my feeling that something is very wrong. It's the face-covering ( Burk or niqab) with its suggestion of religious zealotry and feminine subservience i find troubling.
People are nervous about speaking to burka wearers that's because we want direct comunication, not just through eye cotact but through interesting and sometimes revealing facial expressions. We want to see lips move.
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Four years ago justice secretary Jack Straw was condemned by radical muslim organisations for suggesting that the full veil was making community relations harder which it certainly is. Going a step further, the Belgian parliament is set to ban face-covering with Italy, Denmark and the Netherlands also investigating the possibility of legislation against the practice. AND IT IS A PRACTICE!. There is no mention of it in the Koran, it is a symbol of a wife's obedience to her husband his idea of protection against his women being ogled. In Tunisia where there is a 99% muslim population, most people see themselves as belonging to a modern republic and the headscarf ( hijab) is barred from public places a step France might also take very soon.
A step to far i say as the head scarf is none offensive, in anthor move the international football federation this week felt it imperative to ban the iranian girls football team from the world youth olympics because they would be wearing headscarves, unless FIFA had evidence of am unladylike opponent grabbing the headscarf and throttling the wearer. IMPROBABLE? Yet that was the reason behind a tribunal supporting the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS trust last Tuesday in refusing to allow nurse Shirley Chaplin to wear a crucifix necklace to work. It had been argued that it was dangerous because a patient might grab the chain and injure her, she would have risked it but the judgement backed health safety over a traditional show of Christianity.
Yet when it comes to the Burka, infamous as the cover by which several male terrorists are believed to dodged searches at passport control, our goverment have done nothing.
Face covering is not only utterly alien to this once proud land but it fills no purpose other then to prevent a bout of jealous rage from a husband who believes he has ownership rights as if his wife were a box of jewels to be locked away. This is NOT how we are, and it never should be. The Burka is ugly, alien and plain WRONG!
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