Behind the Burkah

I agree completely with your last post, Gaz.

Has to be same rules for all. It’s perfectly possible to search and be sensitive. Airports should have facilities so that women who choose to wear burkahs can be fully identified, and searched if necessary.

After all, white girls can now wear trousers to school primarily because other ethnic groups did not want to wear skirts, so that they could preserve their culture norm of modesty. Everyone can wear trousers as a result. Nothing wrong with that. On the other hand a school close to me only allows you to wear your hair braided or in dreads if you are black. That kind of stupidity is what ends up getting quoted as an example of “what’s going wrong with this country” and how “immigrants are taking over”. Apart from the crime against fashion involved, I’m sure none of the parents of the black kids at the school were campaigning to stop white kids wearing dreads!

Surely it’s all about sensitivity to people’s cultures, not fear of them. There have been a number of child protection cases where investigations were not thorough enough because social services did not want to offend the families. That can’t be acceptable.

Diverse society. One law. Everyone who is legally resident in the UK, whatever their origin, has the right to try to change it but the duty to uphold it.

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and no, I’m not Jewish ^ .

@cherriepie wrote:

@cherriepie wrote:

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and no, I’m not Jewish ^ .

What you wailing about woman ? :lol:

Too often race and religion get confused.

Some like to assume that brown skin people are more likely to be muslims, hindus, or even sikh as many sikh where I live no longer wear a turban.

The other assumption is that if you are white, you are Christian.

Ummmm, so not true!

You only need look at the 7 / 7 bombers – Jermaine Lindsay, one of the bombers was Jamaican, and Jamaica is known for being Christian.

There are brown and white muslims in the World as well as many black muslims – look at Somalia.

Likewise, there are many white, brown and black Christians.

The problem in this country is people are ignorant of the religious make up of the World, and I include myself in that.

One thing I have learnt is that you cannot look at someone and assume that because they are a certain colour then they must be a certain religion.

Also, people often get accused of being racist when they criticise a religion – for instance if you criticise Islam and sharia law you may be called a racist.

But you’re not – Islam is a religion not a race of people! Anyone can become a muslim but no one can change their race! And that’s the same for any religion.

It’s about time that do gooders understood the differentiation.

Now I am mixed race but I do think things are taken too far and only alienate the indigineous population. Not letting a white kid have beads or dreads is one such example although I hasten to add, it’s a hairstyle that doesn’t suit white or brown skins and non afro hair IMHO.

However, the choice should be there.

I for one having been born here am fed up of treading on eggshells for fear of upsetting someone and it’s the do gooders seeking to improve things that have caused that and in doing so, have just caused more resentment.

As for the Burkha – banning it is just going to cause unnecessary resentment although in Muslims countries, westerners have to abide by the dress code so if it is banned, then those that wear it should abide by the rules or move to a country where it is permitted.

In addition, I think people tend to believe too much of the press when it villifies Islam – I work with a lot of Muslims both male and female and young and old and they are certainly nothing like the press makes them out to be. Why, they even have a sense of humour!