Posted on 12/25/2006 8:04:56 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Veiled British Muslim woman delivers alternative Xmas message
36 minutes ago
A Muslim woman in a full-face veil went head-to-head on television with Queen Elizabeth II, delivering an alternative Christmas Day message on religious integration.
At the same time the 80-year-old monarch's Christmas message to Britain and the Commonwealth was broadcast, a woman known only as Khadijah spoke on Channel 4 television Monday about why she wore the niqab in public and called for tolerance.
"We are seen as oppressed. Since I've started covering I feel much more liberated, which I know a lot of people possibly won't be able to understand," she said.
"I don't wear the niqab to separate myself from society. I want to be part of this society -- this is where I choose to live. I hope that society is more accepting of my personal choice. It's not about separation."
Khadijah's appearance comes amid a debate about the extent of religious and ethnic integration following last year's home-grown Islamist extremist suicide attacks in London.
The row intensified in October when former foreign secretary Jack Straw said he asks Muslim women to remove their veils when they visit him in his constituency, saying it helped communication.
Prime Minister Tony Blair then called the veil a "mark of separation" between communities.
Khadijah -- who converted to Islam a decade ago and said she is the great-granddaughter of a suffragette who fought for women's right to vote -- said Straw's comments were not helpful.
But she also said that Britain was the best country for people to practise their religion freely.
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I wonder if the British realize they are looking at their own future when they see this fully veiled woman.
I can't wait to see Mrs. Bucket ('Boo-kay') deliver the alternative Ramadan message. :-)
Damned politically correct idiots will be the death of us all.
LBT
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Nonsensical on its face. They sure brainwashed her thoroughly! As for Channel 4, why broadcast this tripe?
Muslims never received this deference until they started murdering people in large numbers in the west, so do they now receive this attention because they are respected or because they are feared? This just tells the terrorist that terror is indeed working and is giving Muslims a new voice in the west.
Of course it is.
Correct.
I'd call hthis woman the face of evil but she is hiding behind a mask.
Fitting.
Ha ha! Good call! Wouldn't THAT be something?
Maybe the britmuzzies finally jumped the shark with this in-your-face manifestation, complete with hooded eyes staring malevolently out of the telly and fortelling your doom, you infidels!
Pray that the backlash has begun. If the hezziemuzzies have obtained deference through violence, let the rest of govern ourselves accordingly.
MERRY CHRISTMAS ACHMED! YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT!!?
I don't care if it's Christmas.
I despise the Muslims, Islamofascists and couldn't care less if every single one on the planet dropped dead right now.
Good riddance to bad rubbish. I hope they all die.
"Let the rest of `US' govern ourselves accordingly."
(Sorry)
welcome to Londonistan.......
Wrong, b*tch. You are seen as a freak.
Why feel guilty abou the imperialist past? They should be proud of bringing culture and civilization to untold millions of savages around the world.
Your response to this article was "NONSENSE". May I be a little bolder? It's BULLSHIT.
No woman wants to be covered head to toe. I wonder how much they pay these women to promote this propaganda.
These women in most cases are FORCED to wear that burqa.
You know, when I tell American women this factoid they almost always look askance. American women view the burqa as a quint religious tradition, sort of like the sari on Indian women.
What most Oprah-oriented American women DON'T realize is that the burqa is mandatory in many Muslim countries.
Just get this fact out there and right there you'll have every American woman on your side.
It's the sort of "propaganda" that America doesn't do.
But it really should.
An alternative Christmas Day message? What is that?
The alternative to Christmas Day is...?
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