Ban The Burka?

[vernonk]

Would you like to see the burka banned? I consider it a threat to national security, apart from anything else

[Orderlimit]

Mr AP, irresponsibly throwing the usual 'angry xenophobic ', 'fascist' around and sounding like a spoilt university students union rep has gone way way out of fashion I'm afraid. You'll find that people who want to see the burka banned also don't like to see things like 'SS' costumes or KKK dress being worn in public.

[tamborine]

The burkha is too similar to a halloween costume and therefore out of place for everyday wear in public.

[vetuste_ennemi]

"You'll find that people who want to see the burka banned also don't like to see things like 'SS' costumes or KKK dress being worn in public.".
You really don't understand, do you, OrderLimit? SS and KKK uniforms are symbols of racial hatred and intolerance. The women who choose to wear the burka or niqab are showing their commitment to the principles of modesty as taught to them by their particularversion of Islam; it in no way implies that they hate or distrust their non-Muslim co-citizens. Your inability to see the obvious difference between the two positions suggests to me that you haven't had the fortune to enjoy same educational benefits as the more enlightened contributors to this thread.

[BlackadderV]

Well said, v-e, and I look forward to seeing you outside Finsbury Mosque repeating the same, whilst calling for an amnesty for all the convicted Islamic murderers who are only expressing their adherence to their particular brand of Mohammedanism.

[Answerprancer]

Thank you "Mr" O/L for that spectacular tirade of patronisation which IMO negates your rather feeble counter argument.

[Answerprancer]

BA, that's a pretty cheap shot - you are (or so I thought) above lumping in the murdering nutters with the rest of the generally peace loving Islamic world.

[Orderlimit]

VE, I'm not on about why people wear the burka but there are people (seems a lot of people) who find it offensive or don't think it fits in with the British culture. There are people who find it a symbol of racial hatred and intolerance and and these people also have the right to be listened to without being branded the usual insults. That was probably what I was on about in my previous post and nowt to do with your theory.

[BlackadderV]

Sorry if I may have caused offence. It's just that I am rather confused; who is the real enemy here, Mahomet or the Daily Mail?

[Answerprancer]

The Judean People's Front!!!

[SirOracle]

A good question Blackadder, I am not sure of my answer.

[Answerprancer]

O/L if you're not on about why people wear the burka but are more focused on the notion that there are some who find it offensive or don't think it fits in with the British culture, surely that's *their* problem.

[BlackadderV]

F. Off! The Judean People's Front!!! They are splittists. We are the People's Front of Judea. "Otters' noses, wolf's nipple tips, ocelots' spleens..."

[Answerprancer]

It'll come to you SirOracle ;-)

[Answerprancer]

:-)

[Answerprancer]

..gettem while they're hot, they're lovely.

[Orderlimit]

Yes Mr AP, but I'm sure you would agree it's a growing problem (not just in the UK) so it's time to listen and allow these people to be heard without being silenced by being branded a criminal.

Britain is a very tolerant society - it may be taht the opposing sides can meet halfway, who knows until we all ...

[vetuste_ennemi]

OrderLimit, if you'd read any of my posts on religion (Blackadder has, but, like many of us, is susceptible to the occasional senior moment) you would have known that a (yet another - get a grip, VE!) failed attempt at irony was a criticism not of YOUR common sense post, but of some others'. Maybe you should ask the poster (whose sobriquet is only one K short of an entertaining anagram) why he would object to the Nazi uniform. He will give you ten reasons why this should be outlawed. Well, maybe five in hi8s case.

[Answerprancer]

Oh don't give me that 'the worm has turned'/'poor silenced nation' nonsense, anyone with any ounce of awareness knows that settled Islamic people in this country have FOR YEARS been the victims of the most diabolical bullying/p*k* bashing and prejudice.

[vetuste_ennemi]

QED.

[Answerprancer]

...and no one is trying to "silence" them - this pretense of being silenced is typical right-wing passive aggressiveness exercised when they KNOW their pitiful "argument" is lost to the four winds.