Ban the burka ?.

[zabado]

Before all these religious people jump up and start shouting your taking away my rights,my beliefs,my way of life, my freedom of choice.Why not say that we as a country are banning the covering of the face with anything such as balaclavas,hoodies,scarves, and crash helmets in public places such as shopping centers,banks,cinemas and of course driving a car.

[sara3]

in France this is about women being forced (by their husbands and family) to wear the burka.

if a woman wants to do so, I have no issue with it.

[Coobeastie]

I'm not keen on my government legislating over clothing choices & if you're driving an Ariel Atom or something like a Caterham Superlight you'd still probably want to wear a helmet what with them not having windscreens.

[ll_billym]

I'm not sure how banning the burka is going to solve much, and if that is what you want to ban, well just ban that then.

If a woman wants to wear it then I'm not sure what the problem is. Banning the burka won't stop the scenarion where a woman is forced to wear it, probably without the burka some Muslim women won't be allowed outdoors. It is this culture of treatimg women like this that should be stopped and unfortunately that is much harder if not impossible to police.

Some people feel scared of the burka, not because of what may be under it as that is probably a harmless Muslim woman, but because of the reminder that there are cultures in our society that they know very little about apart from the fact that some of them are terrorists.

[trt]

How do you know some women actually like wearing it onetoomany?

I think it should be banned in public places, if they don't like it they can go back to their country's where its acceptable, simple as that.

[Hugh Spencer]

Having taught young children for years, the case of a teacher wanting to wear a burka in the classroom was going to hinder the children's education. Many young children rely partially on lip reading to understand what is being taught. Otherwise I have no objection to them wearing one as long as other people can hear what they say.

[mr-rubix]

Should we be told what to wear what sexuaility to have or what music to listen too? Because this is what will eventually happen.

[saxy_jag]

If women want to wear it, whatever their misguided reason, then I don't have a problem with that. It's the same as some non-muslim women preferring to be buttoned up to the neck or preferring to wear only baggy clothes. But the fact remains, as Simon Weston pointed out this morning, that if a young woman goes into a shopping centre with her hoodie pulled up and her face mostly covered, she will be asked to leave. If she wears a burka then she's fine. That's one rule for one and one rule for the others, and that is simply not fair.

And contrary to popular belief, just as not all muslims are terrorists, so not all hoodie-wearing youngsters are about to commit crimes.

[Whickerman]

Couldn't care less what someone wears. I'm more repulsed by the wearing of pyjamas in shops than burkas, but that's a personal choice too. Even it you do look a tit.

[mightyWBA]

How many women in the UK actually wear these things?
Muslims account for 3% of the UK population,if half are women thats 1.5%...How many of these wear them?
Hardly any.

There are more Wolves supporters than Burkha wearers..
I'd rather we ban those b uggers!

Our media keeps going on and on and on about Muslims..It's boring.
97% of us aren't so why keep banging on about them?

[askyourgran]

At times I have a problem hearing what people say, and I have mastered the art of lip reading in a lot of situations where it is noisy and crowded. I would be at a loss if a foreigner asked me a question because of their accent, and if she wore a burka I would have no chance of understanding what was said.

[mikkin59]

I like to see the face of the person Im talking to!

[mikkin59]

There was a woman on tv this morning (i assume it was a woman) and all you could see of her were her eyes peering out from a slit the size of a small letter box. and i thought if i were the interviewer I would be really irritated by not being able to see her face. And apart from that it looked bloody rediculous!

[askyourgran]

I agree mikkin, I think it's rude. But they seem ignorant to the fact that being polite is showing your face to register your sincerity. It isn't necessary to wear one of those things, but now I think they do it on purpose.

[birdie1971]

Askyourgran – I totally agree with you.

In my opinion the Burka has become a political tool. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual teachings of Islam.

[heathfield]

But doesn't Islam teach that women shouldn't draw attention to themselves? And isn't the wearing of the burkah designed to do just that? The problem is that where burkah wearers form a minority, by wearing it they actually ARE drawing attention to themselves!

[chakka35]

You're right, askyourgran: it's rude. There seems to be an unspoken rule that ill manners are OK provided they have a religious basis.

There was the female Muslim police cadet who refused to shake hands with the Chief Constable on her passing-out parade because she was forbidden to touch any man who wasn't family. (How she would arrest men was never explained.)

Richard Dawkins reports the occasion when a senior Jew, in the same broadcast studio as Dawkins, refused to shake hands with any of the women there in case one of them was menstruating, because that would make him unclean!

Sheer bad manners.

[McMouse]

As a mass protest all women in UK should wear the burka. Legislation would then swiftly ban it.