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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Enjoy your feeling of liberation Khadijah.
"This woman, and the queen of all people"
The queen has nothing to do with this broadcast.
Self-oppressed.
Agree , she is a primative throwback . No place for her and her kind in the modern world. We;ll have it here REAL soon just wait folks. Coming soon to a neighborhood near you . The Libs don't get it at all .
I took that as meaning 'appearing with' as in on the same program.
That's what "head to head" usually means. Perhaps it should have been written "appeared simultaneously on television with QE2"
Over here 'head to head' with regard to tv programmes generally means 'broadcast on rival channels in the same time slot'.
Well since you like the feeling of freedumb by being covered, here's a few tons of manure to cover you and your "religions" stench with.
Honestly which part of Kill the Infidels is causing the misunderstanding?????
If the British don't wake up, this woman is their future. But broadcasting this at Christmas is so insensitive as to boggle the mind. They want everyone to be sensitive to their needs, but life in their world is a one way street.
Blair is right. The veil, especially the full-body veil, is a relatively modern invention. Mrs. Sadat never felt the need to wear it.
It must be scary to be Muslim in the west. It used to be that they went to the west to escape Islam, but now they suffer from the peer pressure of their co-religionists.
And the way Islam works is that the rules are set by the most fanatical of the crowd.
So should the Queen start giving alternative Ramadan addresses?
What tends to happen also is the peer pressure. You don't want to be the least Muslim Muslim on the block.
I will DIE before I or my daughters submit and wear the potato sack of evil. Over my -- and several other -- dead bodies will it happen.
I almost thought the picture was cloned in Photoshop.
"Hussein, I feel so liberated with my new baton and new frock"
"Bashar, you truly are a glorious Hamassser,"
"I say Bashar. Have you noticed Samir is wearing those new Andy Sullivan sandals?
"No! Not the ones with a shiny hole in the bottoms?
"Oh! He's a camel spider.Don't look at him!"
I'll bet Queen Elizabeth doesn't deliver an alternative message during Ramadan. She should. English civilization is being attacked by the Muslim hordes invading Britain, and all British officials ought to be fighting against them.
You got that right.
A few months ago I was at the state fairgrounds and saw 2 women in burkas shopping. I wanted to walk up to them and demand to know where their male masters were at.
Burkas, veils, etc... are unnerving, offensive and not of our world. And its only a matter of time before one is used to coceal a suicide bomber on a bus here in the states.
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