Posted on 09/04/2019 12:22:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin
. A Labour MP, Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, made an impassioned speech. (It is customary for members of parliament to make speeches in the form of a question, sort of.) According to this article in the Guardian, Dhesi is the “first turbaned Sikh MP” ever to sit in the House of Commons.
He was referring to a column that Boris Johnson wrote in August 2018, after Denmark had banned the burka....It was headed, “Denmark has got it wrong. Yes, the burka is oppressive and ridiculous — but that’s still no reason to ban it.”
In the course of this column, Johnson wrote, “. . . it is absolutely ridiculous that people should choose to go around looking like letter boxes” (what we in America call “mailboxes”). He further spoke of a student turning up at a lecture or something “looking like a bank robber.”
How do we know that women wearing a burka are doing so of their own free will? Maybe they are, maybe they aren’t. I am for individual choice (generally speaking). I can well understand the desire, the choice, to wear a burka, and I respect that choice, frankly. But is a woman forced to wear a burka? Does she feel comfortable in one? Or does she fear harm if she goes without a burka — including from her very family?
This is what leaves me unsettled about the burka question. This is why, as far as I’m concerned, Mr. Dhesi and others can stuff their indignation.
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I heard Tan....he’s a damn liar and antagonist. We have one of those Muslims in our Congress.
I don’t care if they wear burkas as long as they give up their faces for IDs and don’t bitch about racism when a cop wants to see their faces.
At best, the burka is a symbol of oppression. At worst, a method to make us comfortable with saboteurs in our public places.
If you are on the public street, I want your face visible. Period.
Don't care if it's a Muslim in burka, Antifa in mask, or hoodrat with his hoodie covering his face, I want to see it.
I don’t care what people wear as long as it isn’t vulgar, covers up private parts and exposes the face so I can see who I’m talking to and can identify them in a line up.
Some folks should actually wear burqas in public, just to keep us all from being exposed visually.
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