Italy bans Islamic burqas

The Australian ^ | 08/01/05 | Natasha Bita

[fish hawk]

As long as they don't ban Victoria's Secret. LOL

[Supercomputer One]

The Italians have got coglionies. Excuse my poor Italian...

[The Red Zone]

Is that a kind of macaroni?

[ChristianDefender]

FInally... God Bless Italy... They should dominate over all Muslim ideologies, culture and behaviours... the muslims should be always inferior at all times or else St. Peter's Square will become a mosque in the future... and i wont be able to see the faces of lovely italian girls..sarcasm//

[fallujah-nuker]

Mecca delenda est!

[golch1979]

Do you know that Rome was losing when they started with that? They were so afraid of Hannibal that they started the Roman session with a "Carthago delenda est." It was like wishing it would make it come true . (In their case it did). The point is the Romans were afraid, we are not.

[ArmyTeach]

Andiamo, Italia! Brava! Excuse my miserable Italian, but I'm sure you get the idea.

[Clemenza]

Actually, non-citizens are allowed to vote in Roman elections.

[ArmyTeach]

Andiamo, Italia! Brava! Excuse my miserable Italian, but I'm sure you get the idea.

[dila813]

Sounds like they are going to deport all involved.

[Wooly]

As I have told people, Europe will be the solution to the Islam problem, not the USA. We are to politically correct and our heritage of immigration prevents us from having the same prejudice that has existed in Europe for the entire recorded history. This has not always been a good thing since the Europeans have tended to go after these groups with the idea of wiping out everybody in the group targeted.
If you do not believe me just look at history and you will see the Galls, Huns, Muslims, Jews, Slavs, Russians, Turks, Mongols and other groups which have been perceived as threats to the European population.
During World War One the Austrians massacred a whole bunch of Muslim Serbs in retaliation for the assassination of the Arch Duke. And we all know of the Holocaust that the Germans conducted, but all of the rest of Europe looked the other way or aided.
The outlawing of Muslim dress is just a step to cause revolt among the Muslim population therefore creating an appearance of disregard of the law among the non-muslum population. This allows for the passing of more laws against the Muslim population. It is the same technique Hitler used to strip Jews of rights in the 1930s, but it happened throughout European history.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Last time I checked, Italians, Hispanics, anyone other than Muslims, weren't the ones flying planes into buildings or blowing up buses and tubes.

More specifically, the particular brand of Muslims who force their women and girls to hide their faces. If every Western nation would flat out outlaw this practice and instantly deport any non-citizen who advocates it, this brand of Islam would soon be re-confined to the little corner of the world (e.g. Saudi Arabia) where it came from). It makes me sick when I see not just women, but very young girls, walking around in the "land of the free" dressed in these get-ups. It's got to do serious and permanent psychological damage to a girl, to be forced to cover her face from the time she's 9 years old, and never have a normal face to face interaction with anyone outside of her own sick little immediate family.

[Spirited]

Excellent policy.

[Cronos]

I guess no one can call them cowards anymore

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Berlusconi=Balls

Prodi=Pansy

[Marine_Uncle]

"Wow! Our Italian friends have some serious balls."
We don't read much about the Italian efforts in GWOT, but they have been working closely with the rest of the western governments to find and capture suspect terrorist cells. We have to remember they are next on the list according to Abu Musab el Zarqawi. I am sure they have security and intel forces working around the clock as every one else has to stop crap from happening. We tend to only hear from a given country after something bad happens. We don't often hear about all the would be's that got caught before they carried out their plans. As all cooperating nations in the GWOT get better connected with databases, inter agency cooperations, things will continue to get harder for terrorist cells to exists in these countries. As we are now seeing, these countries are starting to re-think just how much freedoms that deviate from the laws of those lands, that where permitted in the past, are now going to be acceptable.

Pakistan's Musharaf sort of drove the nail down hard the other day when he made the comment asking why are not muslim immigrants trying to integrate into the societies they migrate to and become trusted citizens. This is going to have more an impact than a lot of folks realize, in this fast moving word where 2 hour old news seems ancient. To have him say such a thing is practically anti-thesis to the Arab culture as well as many southeast asian cultures.

Please do not feel obligated to respond in kind. I just wanted to make this point.

[Ann Archy]

YES!!

[ArmyTeach]

I agree completely that we are irredeemably lost in the fog of our politically correct thinking, too attached to utopian international schemes, to take realistic and concrete steps for our own self-preservation.

[Allegra]

Good for Italy!

I'm sure there'll be an outcry from the Muslim population, but the right response is "If you don't like it, you can go back to where you came from."

Enough with this PC crap of allowing immigrants to call the shots. Anti-terrorism measures are a No. 1 priority and it's good to see that Italy gets it.

[durasell]

So, now wouldn't be a good time to open a Burqa King franchise?