Teenager told byMcDonalds to remove her hijab because it posed a "security threat"A woman has critic

Acme said:
Of course they don't.

Also, I've never seen a McDonalds security guard. What slum was this filmed in? :p
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Holloway, London N.7, and while it’s not exactly salubrious, it’s far from being a slum IMO, and I don’t live there, I live just south of Tower Bridge, in Southwark.
The Macd’s in question is on the corner of Jackson Road, close to The Emirates football stadium, but there is another one a little further north, in Seven Sisters Road, that always looked more edgy than the Holloway Road branch whenever I drove past it, but I’ve not been in either of them.
I drove south down Holloway Road one evening in my taxi, with the TAXI light illuminated, and was brought to a temporary halt by traffic near the branch in question.
A young guy with a girl, both carrying Macd bags, said through my window, “Take us to the Angel mate?”
I said, “No thanks.”
He said, “Why, because I’m Black?”
I replied as I slowly moved off, “No, I don’t care if you’re green, I don’t want the stink of that crap they call food in my cab”
While a licenced taxi driver can legally refuse any hiring if he feels that he has reasonable grounds, I think that the guy in Macd’s exceeded his remit in asking for removal of the hijab.
 
elrasho said:
So your classed as an adult when your 20? No wonder being a teenager was so confusing!
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No, you're classed as an adult when you're physiolgically mature and that varies from person to person. More casually, you're classed as an adult when you reach the legal age of majority, which is mostly 18 in the UK at this time.

This has absolutely nothing to do with the completely different classification "teenager", which refers to a person who is 13,14,15,16,17,18 or 19, i.e. the numbers ending in teen. Hence the "teen" in "teenager".

EDIT: The exception is pornography, which has 3 age ranges for women. 18-30 is "teen", 30-40 is "milf" and 40+ is "mature. But pornography rarely has anything much to do with reality.
 
dirtychinchilla said:
You don't go out late enough. They're always there at like 1-2AM.
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To be fair, the only McDonalds' I've ever gone to late at night are drive-thru only (after a certain hour), so I don't really know what I'm talking about... :p

It probably shouldn't be surprising considering the amount of drunk people who are likely to swarm a place like McD's late at night.
 
FishFluff said:
Have you ever actually spoken to any Muslim women? Wearing a head scarf is something most do and isn't exactly a sign of oppression. A girl at work loves wearing them as she doesn't have to "spend time faffing with her hair on a morning".
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I work with several, all on the stricter side I suppose, don't have a "Religiousness Meter (tm)" though. I know some won't use the local Turkish cafe as they prep cooked bacon/sausage sandwiches on the same chopping boards as other sandwiches, others don't seem to mind
 
My favourite part was this:

"If you want to dress modestly, you should have the right to dress modestly and it shouldn't be politicised," said the 19-year-old.
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So in her view women who don't cover their head aren't dressing "modestly". It's impossible to imagine what views she might hold of Western women then.
 
Roar87 said:
So in her view women who don't cover their head aren't dressing "modestly". It's impossible to imagine what views she might hold of Western women then.
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Notice that at no point did she say, or even imply, that women must dress modestly. Unlike the OCUK Islam police who want an item of clothing banned.
 
Roar87 said:
So in her view women who don't cover their head aren't dressing "modestly". It's impossible to imagine what views she might hold of Western women then.
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It is, but I'm sure you're having a damn good go at knowing what she's thinking, right?
 
Vonhelmet said:
Yes, it sounds like you are, if you can’t even bear to read it.
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Nah it's nothing to do with that at all, might of guessed you would pipe up there you go assuming again like always. You know what they say about assumptions, right?
The title is what made me not want to read the rest of it because quite frankly pathetic how society treats peoples for expressing their culture then justification for this is a "security threat" give it a rest for **** sake.

Reset the planet and start again.
 
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FishFluff said:
Notice that at no point did she say, or even imply, that women must dress modestly. Unlike the OCUK Islam police who want an item of clothing banned.
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I think it's implied that if you choose to describe covering your head as dressing modestly, then the opposite (not covering your head) is in fact not dressing modestly.

My views are that if you are covering your face and you live in a Western country then you have zero intent on integrating into the local culture. I have no problems with someone covering their head as the woman did, and I would actually intervene to defend her right to do that.

Avenged7Fold said:
I would say it is impossible to imagine what Roar87 thinks of anyone who isn't a born and bred Englishman but he makes ignorance views pretty well known.
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Go on, use the word Xenophobe, you'll get that warm feeling inside and brownie points from the fellow appeasement brigade
 
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FlakGunna said:
Nah it's nothing to do with that at all, might of guessed you would pipe up there you go assuming again like always. You know what they say about assumptions, right?
The title is what made me not want to read because quite frankly pathetic how society treats peoples for expressing their culture then justification for this is a "security thread" give it a rest for **** sake.

Reset the planet and start again.
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I don't even know what you're trying to say. Your third sentence is unparsable.
 
Roar87 said:
So in her view women who don't cover their head aren't dressing "modestly".
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Within the context of her religion, perhaps. But it doesn't seem very fair to assume that she carries that view over to all females regardless of their religion or beliefs.

Roar87 said:
It's impossible to imagine what views she might hold of Western women then.
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I'd imagine she's rather more open-minded about people of different faiths than you're proving yourself to be.
 
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