Burqa...

[has]

I visited Harrods today & whilst there, I saw a person wearing a full face burqa, including the covering of eyes.
According to the website of 'True Islam' one of the extremes of burqa is the Afghan burqa, which was enforced by the Taliban. This burqa covers the entire body in loose clothing with the face (including eyes) being covered with only a grille for the women to look through.

This I foundnd very extreme & I was surprised that a department store like Harrods allows such a thing.
Why does this not fall within the same 'guidelines' as wearing a crash helmet? I'm sure you're not allowed to enter the store wearing a crash helmet?

[naomi24]

Good question - and one I have often asked. Never got a rational answer though.

[sandyRoe]

The ASrab owners of Harrods could hardly object to a style of dress from their own neck of the woods.

[hc4361]

Harrods makes a huge amount of money from the Arab influx every summer so naturally welcomes them.

And don't forget Harrods is owned by the Qatar Investment Authority.

[naomi24]

^^ There's a rational answer - albeit, if talking about crash helmets, irrational.

[jno]

presumably no Arab women in burqas have yet robbed them?

[sandyRoe]

Wasn't it Selfridges suffered a robbery by men wearing burquas just a while ago. A couple of them fell off their motorbike as they tried to make their escape. I'm not sure if the garb they were wearing impeded the driving and caused the accident.

[naomi24]

No, but men in burkas robbed Selfridges so perhaps Harrods ought to be a bit more careful.

[sandyRoe]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-22817907
Here they are

[hc4361]

And this woman who shoplifted from Harrod's wasn't wearing a burqa
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2291410/Thief-dubbed-Queen-Shoplifting-jailed-stealing-35-000-designer-clothes-handbags-Harrods.html

[naomi24]

... and she wasn't wearing a crash helmet either.

[FredPuli43]

Only one ? You should have stayed longer.

Harrods do have a strict dress code. If she had been wearing a muddy burqa, she should not have been admitted.

What have crash helmets to do with a woman wearing a burqa? You don't even know whether a man wearing such a helmet would have been refused entry, but if he were, it would be because that's an unusual thing to wear when shopping and so it suggests other motives

[douglas9401]

Come on now Fred, don't take the weewee.
Some kinds of face covering are ok and others not? There's no logic to it, only the fear of being branded as some or other 'ist'.

[Baldric]

Just googled 'Harrods dress code' . . . . zilch!

[ichkeria]

I believe some Ukrainian footballers were once refused entry to Harrodsburg because the doorman thought their track suits looked 'common'

[ichkeria]

Harrods that is:-)

[sandyRoe]

I was once refused a pint in a London bar because I was wearing a flat cap.
southerners have some strange prejudices

[hawksley]

I was refused entrance to a pub once,because I was wearing jeans.

[needawin]

It is because when other races come to the stupid UK they are allowed to do as they like but the reverse does not apply when others go to their countries.

[hawksley]

needawn, you have just jogged my memory ,a few years ago I attended a nov 5th guy fawkes party with a gang of expats in Spain, within fifteen mins, the guardia civil appeared and warned us not to let anymore fire works off or else???,and told us what we could do with Gut fawkes.

[hawksley]

sorry should read Guy Fawkes ,not Gut Fawkes