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Veiled British Muslim woman delivers alternative Xmas message
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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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
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To: Sub-Driver
You're right. It is utter nonsense.

I'd like to ask a couple of questions here. If the muslims are so damned great, where is their technology? Just how many communications satellites have they lofted. How many homeless men, women and children have they fed? How many heretofore incurable diseases have they cured. How many automobiles have they produced? How many aircraft have they designed, built and marketed?

The list could go on and on, but I won't trouble all of you. Anyone with even half a brain will immediately know that these people and their sick mental disorder called "Islam" are total failures. Any people who spend the larger part of the day bumping their stupid heads on the ground and forcing their women to retreat into a bundle of rage called a "burka" ain't going any place.

And finally, how many Christians do any of us know who has ever beheaded anyone and claimed that it was done in the name of Jesus Christ?

61 posted on 12/25/2006 9:58:13 AM PST by davisfh
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To: bray
"Besides a Bhurka is a great way to hide the bruises when your husband beats you for NO REASON."

There! Fixed!
62 posted on 12/25/2006 10:24:54 AM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: navyguy
That picture reminded me of the movie "Ghosts" and the evil shadowy souls emerging from Hell.
63 posted on 12/25/2006 10:46:48 AM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Sub-Driver
I don't wear the niqab to separate myself from society. I want to be part of this society

SLAVERY IS FREEDOM.
WAR IS PEACE.
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

64 posted on 12/25/2006 10:51:10 AM PST by Alouette (Psalms of the Day: 23-28)
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To: Sub-Driver

Unbelieveable! the depths to which this once great country has sunk...
Without a serious course correction very soon, they 'R' us...


65 posted on 12/25/2006 10:54:33 AM PST by krunkygirl
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To: Sub-Driver

66 posted on 12/25/2006 10:58:33 AM PST by snarks_when_bored
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To: Sub-Driver
Just wondering, just how do mohammedans get married? We all know that the male only has to repeat "I divorce you" three times and it is done. To get married, do they just exchange a set number of goats? Is there an actual formal ritual?

And if the female is in a Burka how in the world does the male know who he has married? Is that why they get four chances at it?
67 posted on 12/25/2006 11:00:15 AM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Sub-Driver

bump


68 posted on 12/25/2006 11:02:24 AM PST by VOA
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To: Nathan Zachary

"...a dumpy looking liberal western woman ...wouldn't have to shave that beard, squeeze those zits, wash her greasy rats nest called hair, shave legs or any other repetitive tasks like that."

I think I saw this one at Wal-Mart yesterday. I couldn't say if her legs needed shaving--she was wearing stretch pants that were about three sizes too small.


69 posted on 12/25/2006 11:10:29 AM PST by beelzepug (the Nikonoclast)
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To: Morgan in Denver

Ha! Was thinkin the same thing here.


70 posted on 12/25/2006 11:15:18 AM PST by Ben Chad
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To: krunkygirl

"Unbelieveable! the depths to which this once great country has sunk...
Without a serious course correction very soon, they 'R' us..."

Thank you for judging the entire country on the basis of one of our media outlets. Presumably one can judge the whole of the USA just by reading a couple of stories in the New York Times...?


71 posted on 12/25/2006 11:21:15 AM PST by Canard
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To: M1Tanker
To hear the Islamofascists talk is like reading the "Big Brother" messages in "1984"

My initial reaction was exactly the same.

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

72 posted on 12/25/2006 11:21:51 AM PST by matt1234
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To: Canard

No, Canard, not a few articles in one of your media outlets.
Many articles, changes in public policy, a general shift in the country's people toward liberalism...

Mind you this is just one woman's opinion. I am frightened for the future of the whole of Europe...
And, like I said, seeing waaaaay too much of the same in the good 'ole US of A...


73 posted on 12/25/2006 11:34:02 AM PST by krunkygirl
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To: Spok
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?

The answer is the leftist doctrine of "Diversity uber alles." In their view, one falsely accused muzzie is a greater injustice than a nuked British city. Couple this with white leftists' self-loathing, and you can see the danger that the left poses to Western civilization. As we all know, the left controls the media, so they allow these 7th century savages to speak freely.

Although I find such muzzie tripe distasteful, it does have the positive effect of further alienating the muzzies from the majority. The sooner they are alienated, the sooner they will be defeated. So to the muzzies, I say, "Keep pushing."

74 posted on 12/25/2006 11:36:22 AM PST by matt1234
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To: Sub-Driver

Britain had religious integration until the damn Muslims came in. If they don't like Britain, it's back to the Middle East for them.


75 posted on 12/25/2006 12:06:19 PM PST by popdonnelly
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To: HarmlessLovableFuzzball

Why should the Brits feel guilty? It's obvious it's the Muslims who are intolerant and bigoted.


76 posted on 12/25/2006 12:07:23 PM PST by popdonnelly
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To: Sub-Driver
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.

Sure I understand. Now she can do anything she wants and no one can ID her.

77 posted on 12/25/2006 1:02:04 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Don't know why these comments never made it into this thread but, for what it's worth here it is again.

You're right. It is utter nonsense.

I'd like to ask a couple of questions here. If the Muslims are so damned great, where is their technology? Just how many communications satellites have they lofted. How many homeless men, women and children have they fed? How many heretofore incurable diseases have they cured. How many automobiles have they produced? How many aircraft have they designed, built and marketed?

The list could go on and on, but I won't trouble all of you. Anyone with even half a brain will immediately know that these people and their sick mental disorder called "Islam" are total failures. Any people who spend the larger part of the day bumping their stupid heads on the ground and forcing their women to retreat into a bundle of rags called a "burka" ain't going any place.

And finally, how many Christians do any of us know who have ever beheaded anyone and claimed that it was done in the name of Jesus Christ?

78 posted on 12/25/2006 1:21:08 PM PST by davisfh
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To: Sub-Driver

"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." "

Idiotic doublespeak from a brainwashed moron. What woman on earth would not want to be wrapped from head to toe like a summer sausage? What woman on earth would not want to be treated like a pet or chattel?

Obviously this cow wants it. You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink. If this is what some of the women want, then let them suffer in their "choice". But the n let the women who want to actually integrate and throw off the shackles of an oppressive religion stuck in the dark ages do so without being hunted down by their families and killed. After all, don't they have a choice as well as this dumb butt?


79 posted on 12/25/2006 1:29:22 PM PST by MissouriConservative (Libertarian = aid and comfort to the democratic party)
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To: matt1234
Oddly the message of the Islamofascists seems to be the same as the leftists'.

How telling that they use each others "talking points"...
80 posted on 12/25/2006 7:19:27 PM PST by M1Tanker (Proven Daily: Modern "progressive" liberalism is just National Socialism without the "twisted cross")
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