Was It In Order For This Bus Driver To Ask His Passenger To Remove Her Veil?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6046771/Bus-driver-demanded-Muslim-woman-removed-veil-got-board.html

[Old_Geezer]

And then we get a response out of order.

[Old_Geezer]

An edit facility sorts out so ,;(:'"@/ much.

[Zacs-Master]

So does reading your post through before submitting it. Give it a rest, OG.

[jackthehat]

This all occured on a Bus....in Bristol.

No-one had dementia; a ticket/travel-pass had been presented or bought and it would all have passed of without incident *IF* the driver hadn't have taken it into his head to demand that the woman remove her niqab.

[Old_Geezer]

I think many say that after reading yours zacs.

[Rockrose]

All this thread has done is shown the intolerance shown by many!

[gulliver1]

Maybe, the bus driver thought she was not quite the Ticket.

[Baldric]

FF, my comment was aimed soley at your 17:47 post and not toany earlier postings you have made, ok.

[Jackdaw33]

If I were a taxi driver I wouln't carry anyone with their face covered.

[andy-hughes]

I am amazed that this bus driver is … a bus driver!!

With his obvious talents, he should have a seriously highly-paid job in anti-terrorism!


Why? Because he can tell if a woman is a terrorist or not simply by seeing her face. He stated as such - without sight of the passenger's face he 'didn't know what she was capable of ...'.

Ergo, simply seeing her face allows him to ascertain if she is simply a young mother with a child going about her business, or a fully paid-up bomb-carrying terrorist.

The authorities have missed a serious trick here - a man who can identify a terrorist if he can see their face!

Stop letting him waste his time upsetting innocent passengers and get him into MI6 - today!!!!

[sanmac]

"All this thread has done is shown the intolerance shown by many!" No, it has also shown the utterly naive tolerance of many to the insidious, slow but sure, creeping muslum menace.

[andy-hughes]

sanmac - Europeans fear and dislike cultures that are different from theirs, expressed in religion, dress code, and other outward signs.

They are fed by a fear-generating media, and they confirm their fear to each other (every day on here for example!) because it makes them feel better.

[Old_Geezer]

"he can tell" vs "he 'didn't know"

He made no claim that on seeing the face he woukd be able to tell, but presumably if it isn't a young mother one might think he'd be suspicious.

There's a need to follow logically to reach a conclusion.

[andy-hughes]

Old_Geezer - // He made no claim that on seeing the face he woukd be able to tell, but presumably if it isn't a young mother one might think he'd be suspicious.

There's a need to follow logically to reach a conclusion. //

Since the driver would have heard the passenger speak it would already be clear that she is a young woman, and not a burly bloke, so what else in his understanding would be enhanced by seeing her face, in the simple transaction of giving her a ticket, taking her fare, and driving his bus, which is actually what he is required to do?

Oh yes, as I advised previously, if he can see her face, he can tell if she is a terrorist or not!!

[Baldric]

// Europeans fear and dislike cultures that are different from theirs, expressed in religion, dress code, and other outward signs //

What a crock of carp!

[Prudie]

Yes it is - in fact most humans do that.

[Old_Geezer]

The authorities have missed a serious trick here - a man who can be sure to identify gender just by hearing the voice !

[nailit]

//Europeans fear and dislike cultures that are different from theirs, expressed in religion, dress code, and other outward signs //
But not without reason given the events in recent years!

[Theland]

Totally agree with the driver. God bless him. First line of defence. Next time it could be a bomber!

[-Talbot-]

andy-hughes
sanmac - Europeans fear and dislike cultures that are different from theirs, expressed in religion, dress code, and other outward signs.

They are fed by a fear-generating media,



Nothing to do with the shootings, stabbings, rapes, child rapes, smashing up of churches, running down pedestrians etc, then?