Wednesday, 30 June 2010

Tory MP Phillip Hollobone introduces bill to ban Burka


The reptilian creature aka as Tory MP Phillip Hollobone today introduced his Face coverings (Regulation Bill) to ban the Niqab.

I have mentioned before how ideally Hollobone could do us all a favour by wearing a veil and saving us from the hideous prospect of having to view his face. However, why is it that ironically a white man in a suit who is the  MP for a constituency that has nobody wearing the Niqab feels it is the most important issue for Kettering ahead of housing education and health? The irony is breathtaking as we have a situation of a proposed repressive illiberal ban by a man telling or more accurately forcing women to wear what he thinks is appropriate.
Posted by LM

12 comments:

  1. Perhaps Mr Hollobone feels this grotesque garment, itself a disgusting manifestation of the cancer of militant Islamism, has no place in a western society.

    I for one (and doubtless millions of other British people) wholeheartedly agree with him.

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  2. One of my doctors wears the muslim coverings, I'm not sure what they're called, but she doesn't quite manage a face veil. When I sit having a consultation and look at her, I see religious zealot, not a doctor and she is british.

    I don't actually mind all this strange garb, but I do hate the face veil, just who the hell am I talking too???!!! Expressions are all in western society, god knows what you muslims do, hand signals? Hear, hear for Mr Hollobone.

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  3. I'm Muslim. I hate niquaab.
    Its not Islamic, its innovation - it does more harm than good - get rid of it.

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  4. Well he has a point. A debate worth having. I think you would find most people find it utterly against our traditions and values. Apart from tradition there are practical reasons - many of them - why they are not suited for our society. No doubt there will be the usual riots and threats though even Syria and Egypt have seen fit to ban them in public.. With the way this minority has behaved, the time is likely when many ppl will say enough: you have pushed us as far as we are willing to go.

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  5. Another thought on the clothes muslim woman must have to wear.

    The rule for hygiene purposes in the NHS is bare to the elbow, with no ties or flapping clothes to pick up bacteria and spread it around, MRSA, eColi etc.

    BUT muslim woman are allowed to have covered arms and wear a complicated head dress. So I suppose they are immaculately clean, and never carry a germ, what wonderful beings they must be, just perfect. Their attitude appears, blow the rest of us if we catch illnesses from their flapping garments and dirty sleeves, at least gods on their side.

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  6. Having lived in Saudi Arabia and becoming accustomed to seeing "hijab", head coverings on women there, I actually prefer it to seeing the moustaches on Muslim women. Saudi men seem to be a bit anxious about their wives having larger moustaches than them.

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  7. Since when has it been part of 'civilised' Britain's values to dictate to people what to wear?!?
    I dont wear the niqab or any form of religious covering but surely in this apparently 'liberal', 'democratic' country, I should have a right to do so?

    It's incredibly arrogrant, insulting and dogmatic for this MP, or anyone in fact, to tell me what Im allowed and not allowed to wear, irrespective of the reason I chose to wear it.

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  8. Well let's see...
    This one starts....
    "The reptilian creature aka as ...."

    Sheer, unadulterated spite and mean-mindedness.
    When someone starts a post with such a nasty "ad hominem" attack, why would I - or anyone else - take anything else he has to say seriously?

    Remarks like this comes from the sort of person who "demands" to be treated with respect and yet has no problem trampling all over someone else's respect because he just doesn't like 'em. Hmmm?? No?

    I'll have to stay "Anonymous."
    Just can't be bothered to join up with something like the reptilian name-calling Londonmuslim who thinks it's quite okay to be ultra-rude about others, thinks he makes a good argument by attacking the man instead of the message.

    I guess the message must be a pretty good one if this is the best way to attack it.

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  9. My comment "will be visible after approval...."

    And so we'll see if you can take it as well as give it?? Huh?

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  10. I'll give Londonmuslim one thing, hes' pretty lenient in his modding, allows virtually any comment, which is pretty good, I'm impressed for once with a muslim!

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  11. I dont quite get it, why would someone be against muslims women 'burka', the first thing that comes in mind when i see a woman wearing 'burka' is that she is muslim, i think for whatever knowledge i have about muslims and islam is that 'burka' is considered as a jewel of muslim women. i dont think it hinders to identify them, because face is not the only thing that we use to identify someone. we make phone call to our bank to get authorisation / authentication for our account did we use our face for this identification, well the answer is No. i think issue of identification is just a stupid argument anyone could give. I think muslim women have their right to cover their face just like 'queen of England has every right to wear her crown anytime she likes because its her crown'.

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  12. The Muslim Canadian Congress calls for a ban on the burka and the niqab, arguing that they have “no basis in Islam”.

    http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/10/08/canada-muslim-burka-niqb-ban-government.html

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