Its a miracle, praise the lord

Former foreign secretary Jack Straw said Muslim women who wore full veils made community relations “more difficult”, sparking criticism from Islamic groups who said the comments would cause anger in their communities.

Straw, said a veil was “a visible statement of separation and difference” and that he felt much more comfortable dealing with people with their faces uncovered.
“wearing the full veil was bound to make better, positive relations between the two communities more difficult”.

Straw said he had received a unanimously positive response to his request for Muslim women to take off their veils when they came to see him in Blackburn.

“Most seem relieved I have asked,” he said in his article for the Lancashire Evening Telegraph.

On Wednesday, Conservative opposition leader David Cameron said many communities were growing up living “parallel lives” and that only contact could overcome differences.

However, the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) accused both political parties of pandering to anti-Muslim elements.

“Both the Labour and the Conservative politicians are trying to compete with each other. One wonders whether they are trying to appeal to the right-wing media,” a MAB spokesman said, adding he believed Straw’s comments about the veils were unwarranted.

Abdul Hamid Qureshi, chairman of the Lancashire Council of Mosques, warned that Straw would get criticisms “from all quarters”.

“What is he really concerned about? This is not helpful, it has got the potential to cause anger,” he told the Lancashire Telegraph.

http://www.brighousetoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=5054&ArticleID=1807252

On the one hand, there seems light (speckles) at the end of the tunnel from the multicultural makers. On the other, why has it taken several years for Jack to say something?

Be interesting to see the backlash from the muslim community, and see how the multicultural experiment backfires.

Theres a long way to go…