Jack Straw Should be Beheaded

[wendigo100]

As an aside hattra - is your avatar from the play "An Inspector Calls"?

It looks like The Exorcist to me.

[Joe Black]

Arab women were wearing veils long before Islam came on the scene. That has taken precedence in "traditional" Islam where they have made it a religious duty

Is this an Easter bunny thing?

[xoggoth]

It really is not a very serious issue, telling them what to wear offends against the principles of freedom we should be defending against Islam. So women are indoctrinated? gosh! not as though anyone else is brought up to believe in a certain way is is it?

More to the point we should be opposing assaults on free speech, the view that religion has any role to play in framing laws, belief in the barbarism of Shariah law, backward practices like arranged marriages, ritual mutilation of infants and slaughter of animals, and especially, we should be getting shot of the extremist Imams.

[Gonzo]

If you live in a country where the sun shines all the time then wearing clothes that completely cover the skin is actually quite sensible.

I don't think that it is necessary in Blackburn though.

[oraclesmith]

A b*gger to ID them on CCTV as well.

Imagine the anti-social behaviour problems if chavs could wander round in full hood balaclavas without being picked up by the cops ? Imagine the human rights issues if they let one group do this and not another ?

[Gonzo]

I don't wish to make the feminsts' jobs easier

however

I don't think that we have much to worry about young muslim women

Young british wearing hoodies have been banned from Bluewater though - and they are all black and white.

[mcquiggd]

Easy.. if they want to wear veils, they submit to Smear Tests before entering any public place so there is a traceable record of their identity.

Doub't there is anything in the quran / koran / quorn about Smear Tests.

Obviously we need a national database of Smear Tests of Women Who Hide Their Faces.

Ask Wipro if they would develop one...


I'll allow other CUK members to suggest suitable tests for 'Hoodies'....

[oraclesmith]

What's to stop the chavs picking up on this and having a laugh wearing burqa's to rob off-licenses ? After all, it wasn't long ago that dummies were in vogue.

[vetran]

Some good points here

http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/ar.../finalveil.htm

I think however many muslims don't realise how unnerving many non muslims feel the veil is and worry about motives.

[hyperD]

Seeing a picture of a burqa, I wonder whether it's legal to walk around town and into banks wearing a full NBC suit.

Mind you, you could have a crafty hand shandy under there and no-one would realise.