Boris and the burka
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What part of my post are you having trouble understanding?
You do realise that nuns don't cover their faces whereas women wearing a burka do?
One has their face uncovered and the other has their face covered, they are opposites.
You do realise that there is a wider issue here with religion and social norms, and it's not just about security?
But to answer your question yes, if society deemed it was necessary then sure. Slippery slope no doubt...
We aren't in Italy....?You do realise that in some parts of Italy (and elsewhere) you get veiled nuns right? So take that
x 1000Stupid to you because you dont understand the difference between a Nun and a woman who wears a burka!
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Even ISIL banned the burqa and the niqab.
http://ifpnews.com/news/world/middle-east/women-banned-wearing-burqa-entering-isis-security-centres/
http://ifpnews.com/news/world/middle-east/women-banned-wearing-burqa-entering-isis-security-centres/
About time common sense took precedence over peoples' feelings in all honesty. Boris is a knobber but he is right.
If you can walk into a bank wearing a Burqa then you should be allowed in a bank wearing a balaclava or a colander (if you follow the FSM PBUH).
If you can walk into a bank wearing a Burqa then you should be allowed in a bank wearing a balaclava or a colander (if you follow the FSM PBUH).
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Don't drag nuns into this, most didn't wear a full veil as it would have made falling into the septic tank or mass grave too much of a risk when they buried the hundreds if not thousands of illegitimate babies they couldn't flog off for illegal adoption... 
Fairs fair, and just to show I am impartial really 
My objections to women in the UK wearing them are firstly security issues and secondly I don't want my country to look like some Tunisian bazaar. The wearing of the things is contrary to full and enthusiastic integration.
Fairs fair, and just to show I am impartial really My objections to women in the UK wearing them are firstly security issues and secondly I don't want my country to look like some Tunisian bazaar. The wearing of the things is contrary to full and enthusiastic integration.
Theresa may is telling him to apologise now the burka has no place in the uk boris is right it's ridiculous according to link below he got it wrong though i don't think you can get a letter though this
never seen that in the uk anyone else ? the letter box style niqab yes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/24118241
the other head scarves here hijab ect..no problem with that
the burka has no place in the uk boris is right it's ridiculous according to link below he got it wrong though i don't think you can get a letter though thisnever seen that in the uk anyone else ? the letter box style niqab yes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/24118241
the other head scarves here hijab ect..no problem with that
@Raggs I've seen them very occasionally, generally around Mayfair/Piccadilly, usually with designer bags - presumably wives and family members of Saudi royalty on a shopping trip!
Presumably there are some that actually live in the UK though.
Presumably there are some that actually live in the UK though.
Since they wrote "a nun is a religous" rather than "a nun is religious", I think they might have meant "a nun is a cleric". A religious official of some sort. Perhaps.
Like I pointed out already I was putting forth my own argument, I was not responding to an opponent's argument/attempting to misrepresent an argument put forth by others. It isn't a straw man. You seemingly don't even understand the definition right in front of you.
I've simply given an example (or rather two) of where someone might make flippant comments with regards to clothing and generate no controversy.
In this example deliberately moderating your language/criticism for this instance where you wouldn't do so in other instances of criticising clothing wouldn't be treating people equally. It would be pandering to certain people based on their identity - I guess you perhaps subscribe to the bigotry of low expectations.... not too surprising.
I don't see why it is "wrong" to be flippant about clothing when criticising it. And I don't see why someone should be pandered to, treated with kid gloves in a situation like this where you'd be a bit more blunt with regards to others. Especially when the criticism is being made in regards to something particularly oppressive.
the Iranian woman at the world cup spoke volumes in Russia wearing face paint and crop top midriff showing, id wearing headscarf she wouldn't wearing that given a free choice.
^^^ that just about sums it up in plenty of cases tbh...
same issue as usual, people on the left are prone to ignoring various messed up issues relating to Islam
you get occasionally amusing incidents like a UK ex-muslim group quite rightly wanting to march in gay pride events and a London mosque wanting to have them banned... these are people who've been suppressed by a religion, by their community and are therefore marching for the very reasons pride events started and their signs are of course often critical of Islam or contain things like "Allah is a gay god" - the sort of thing that would generate screeches of "racism" or threats of arrest by the police for breach of the peace in other circumstances... but because it is pride and they're just doing what gay rights campaigners have done for decades with regards to mainstream culture in the UK and Christianity then it is an amusing conundrum that the organisers have... do they allow the "Islamophobia" that we get repeatedly told these days is "racism" or do they allow a bunch of oppressed gay ex-muslim people to carry on marching and protesting in exactly the same way as gay people who have been brought up in Christian households have done in the past.
Do people on here go through life constantly raging at everything all day long.
apparently so, all Boris did was criticise some clothing choice but instead we get screeches of racism etc.. in another context, when criticising clothing, no one would care
They often are banned from shopping centres etc... In fact if you went one step further and decided to walk into say the City of London wearing a balaclava then you'd probably have a very good chance of being stopped by the police.
Not that I think we should ban these silly clothing options.
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meant to post this before - here is a post from a liberal muslim that just about sums up this nonsense:
So that's him getting his account banned and deleted then.
Its not in the koran. Its not done for religious purposes. Open your eyes. Get educated pal.
Do you even know the difference between a Nun and a woman who wears a burka? Obviously not!
Please do