Enough Of The Niqab Nonsense

[anotheoldgit]

http://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/enough-of-the-niqab-nonsense-opinion

The Canadian Government is going to the Supreme Court in an attempt to stop Pakistani born teacher Zunera Ishaq from keeping her niqab on while receiving citizenship.

Mansoor Ladha himself a Muslim, says "the niqab nonsense has been going on for quite some time and we need to put an end to it", do you agree?

[naomi24]

Yes.

[Svejk]

Yes

[Jackdaw33]

Simples! Don't grant her citizenship and deport her. It's a no-brainer.

[Cloverjo]

Yes, I agree. The woman's culture might have demanded she wear the niqab while in her native country, but she wants to become a citizen of another country where people aren't entirely comfortable with it.
If she wants to put something over her head later, then she has the freedom to do that.

[andy-hughes]

Yes, I agree.

The wearing of the Niqab in western countries and cities causes suspicion and resentment that simply needn't exist - although I do agree that a personal choice is involved.

However, for a ceremony such as citizenship receipt, it is the responsibility of the receiver to show that he or she is willing to embrace the cultural attitudes of his or her adopted country - and adhering to personal choices for divisive clothing is not a good start.

[sandyRoe]

People used to travel to the New World in search of religious freedom, the Pilgrim Fathers, for example. It would be a great pity if they now couldn't wear an outward and visible expression of their beliefs.

[Baldric]

Sounds like she's an attention seeker imo!

///Muslim scholars, imams and even niqab wearers have publicly stated that wearing a niqab is not part of the Muslim religion. Women are not forced by their religious or cultural beliefs to conceal their faces behind the niqab, and neither are they forced by anyone else, including their husbands. It is a woman’s personal and private choice.
A Muslim woman can go to Mecca for hajj — the sacred Muslim pilgrimage — without wearing a niqab, but she refuses to attend a citizenship ceremony and show her face. How hypocritical!///

[Ric.ror]

Yes

As for her not being able to wear an outward expression of her beliefs - no one said she could not wear a veil - just not the sinister and secretive niqab

[vetuste_ennemi]

The article says:

"The issue has divided the country".

Really! The Canadian bien-pensants may be divided on the issue (why, even Andy can see through this one!), but how many normal Canadians see this woman as anything else than what she is:yet another Islamo-fascist who has come to a foreign country not to be a willing participant in its cultural life, but to impose her own values upon it? The woman' s oath of allegiance would be a lie whether she wore a niqab, did not wear one, or deliveed the oath stark naked.

[vetuste_ennemi]

The bien-pensants on this thread are currently split 50/50.

[Old_Geezer]

Pretty much yes. I would like to allow folk to wear whatever they want but society has a right not to have hidden folk within in, too. It seems some encouragement is needed to come out of the blanket.

[naomi24]

For women who aren't forced by the men in their lives to shroud themselves from the rest of society - and many are - this is nothing more than a political uniform.

[murraymints]

yes..if you want to become part of another nation officially then abide by their laws and customs.

[viv41]

Don't take her to Court, just don't give her citizenship !!

[RATTER15]

Yes, totally agree!!

[tonyav]

Yes, I certainly do.

[Khandro]

As (nearly) always in these cases you will find a cowardly man, who wears everyday normal western attire; father, brother or husband, behind this story. She will have to have a passport or some form of ID to live in Canada and a mug shot in a niqab will not do.

[trt]

What happens in the UK, are people allowed to wear Niqab at a citizenship ceremony?

[jourdain2]

Yes, naomi right. It is a political uniform.

[Jackdaw33]

Think niqab, think ISIS.