Recently a Muslim woman was stopped in France for driving with her veil on because the police decided that it impinged her vision.

Belgian MPs have voted to ban it in places including public gardens, streets, sports grounds and any other place considered public on the grounds that it will

help fight terrorism and grant rights to Muslim women.

Mmmm, don’t think so.

In Belgium, IF a woman wants to wear it, she has to seek WRITTEN permission from the police. Since they are law enforcers not law makers,  they will have to deny the woman that right based on the principle that the law is the law and they must enforce it.

Based upon the article, one hundred (100) women will be affected by this law in a country of how many thousands (1000′s)?????

So those hundred women are THE ONLY source of crime, terror and fear IN the whole of Belgium? And in France, their hysteria is targeted at around two thousand (2000) women?

They have to shoulder the burden of fines, prison and restricted freedom based on acts of crime that they have had no part in? (I make that statement based upon the fact that no evidence has been presented to say other wise so yes, I am presuming that they ARE innocent in this). What ever happened to innocent until proven guilty?

But lets entertain their point for a minute.

The basis for banning the veil or burka (since they can’t tell the difference between the two (2)) is that people use it to hide their identity and therefore may or may not (A) Use them as a means to commit a crime especially terrorism, (B) may use them to hide their identity therefore escaping froma crime scene using it (C) women who are forced to wear it are having their human rights breached and therefore are not free to be a part of the larger community. By passing this law, the various governments and their supporters believe they will be helping those kind of  women to escape from such oppression.

This is where I see the holes in those reasons.

1) Crimes are commited everyday by all sorts of people and most of them do not even bother to hid their faces anymore. Those who do, like the Isreali secret agents who killed the ambasador in the hotel using wigs, fake passports, changing into various outfits etc are so blatant about it, that this excuse is blown out of the water.

So are they going to ban the use of such items and include in that list, make up, masks, any form of fancy dress, halloween and christmas outfits etc, scarves that can be used in the winter to cover the face, hats, false eye lashes, nails, weaves, extensions, men who prance around in skirts for the laugh, heeled shoes (since they alter height (MR SARKOZY TUT TUT!!))  the list is very extensive.

2) Even with security cameras galore, crimminals have been smart enough to blend into crowds, fast enough to escape through other means so the wearing of niqab or burka, actually draws more attension (nowadays, never was like that before) to a person if their behaviour and actions are suspect. Also with the security risk issue, I will say it AGAIN, if those employed to carry out searches, to check passports or to secure buildings cannot do their jobs properly and identify individuals as they go through check points, then don’t blame it on the customer!

3) Women who are being forced to veil WILL NOT BE HELPED by such laws at all. In fact, they are the ones who will be MORE affected by such laws. The articles in the links already mention some of the problems they will face by it.

Another thing, most women who are forced to wear the burka especially, do not come from the countries wanting to ban them. Those countries are not in the papers campaining for those countries to abolish their cultural norms to free those women! You don’t see them boycotting those countries as a means to force them to rethink the appaling women’s rights issues blighting their countries or having meetings to discuss how organisations like the UN can bring sanctions against them, building places of refuge for those kinds of women or even donating money to fund avenues of escape for them, but like all big bullies, they target the smaller ones in the group ( in this case communities) and make their lives a misery whilst leaving the bigger picture untouched.

And that is just three (3)points being covered.

When you bring in international laws that they (Belgium, France etc) helped to bring in, the nasty stench of old colonial rule starts to permeat every orifice of their greedy little faces.

Let them admit the truth. Greed is the basis of this. They helped to bomb the countries that some of these women came from ( let’s forget the nationals that adopted veil since they don’t count eh?) and now they are fleeing to their countries, they want to kick them whilst they are down by saying rubbish like “ They come into our country and are forcing their ideals onto us. Well we are a secular country and we will not be forced to see people like them walking down our roads or using our services”

A classic line is: ” They are trying to push their religion upon us and the PC (politically correct) brigade are pandering to them”

Them??? Who is them? The millions of Muslims who live all over the world and are getting on with their lives?

The minority who have been condensed into particular areas and are targeted by bigots if they dare to leave those areas?

Minus fines, prison sentences, restricted services and alienation, how do these governments plan to help the hundreds (100′s) of “freed” women who could end up on the streets, killed (which I pray will not happen but it’s a worst and possible scenario), unable to work, unable to provide for themselves etc?

Will the rest of the community start to moan (again) that they are a drain on the already struggling economy?

I want to know what measures they as a country, are taking to protect women who are forced to wear the burka or veil, what are they doing to aid women who are fighting for the freedom to wear or not wear what they like?

With interest, the whole of Europe and the wider world are waiting to see how they plan to make this ban work especailly since Belgium’s government is already in such a disarray……

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