And for your very personal call for the ban … you can always elect not to speak to a person wearing a burqa or niqab … you never know … you may even be doing them a favour

Is a woman who wears a veil out of choice or even by force such a massive world issue – isn’t human trafficking and prostitution which occurs in every single country and culture a bigger deal.

Also just to correct another ignorant misconception a burkha and niqaab (covering of the face) are not the same thing and don’t have the same cultural affiliations.

A veil/headscarf is intended to be modest – nuns in the christian tradition, orthodox jewish women, rastafarian women etc also cover their hair. Hair is considered sensual in many cultures and religions why can’t you people get over it and understand that battling over this stuff is totally ridiculous.

Watch this space. It’s going to happen. Welfare will be reformed. It’s bankrupting us.

And withhold benefits from burkha wearers. After all, why should I as a taxpayer be forced to pay for people who deliberately make themselves ‘unemployable’?

Heh. that would be amusing watching the benefits system try and work out who wears a burkha and who doesn’t! (and just as well, where would our civil liberties be then?) are any of your suggestions Reza possible to implement?

you come across as impossibly draconian,you sound like you have much in common with a Pakistani Mullah. Content of opinion may be diametrically opposed, but similar ideas of implementation. thankfully here we like our individual freedoms and there is enough of a post-punk desire to resist authoritarianism. phew

Anyway, there are lots of people who some argue make themselves deliberately ‘unemployable’ – like mothers for instance who don’t work. Of course no doubt you would suggest they not be eligible for any state support of course.

I wonder why people like you choose to come and live in countries where the State functions and there is a collective agreement to pool money into a pot that is there for the welfare of that collective. and not those countries where the State doesn’t function and there is no such state-wide social welfare..like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Afghanistan..and countless others. (that’s why of course people are so dependent on the family cartel for social welfare, that’s as far as the idea of a collective seems to go).

Or again= to the US of A. the house of unamerican activities will spot the burkha wearers and not give them any benefits!!

But ‘tolerating’ the burkha and niqab is the thin end of the wedge. We’ve seen it before.

First the multiculturalists force us to ‘tolerate’. Then we must ‘respect’ and ultimately we have to ‘celebrate’.

And soon, the right to wear a burkha becomes specifically enshrined in our draconian anti-discrimination laws.

Banks, airports and schools will be forced to make specific arrangements to accommodate those people. Shopkeepers and businesses will be prosecuted if they deny access to a burkha wearer.

And I will be forced to employ people wearing this vile and offensive garment.

So don’t ban it. But allow the majority of people in this country, who find the garment offensive, the freedom to be offended by it. Allow them to refuse to employ, burkha wearers or admit them to their premises.

And withhold benefits from burkha wearers. After all, why should I as a taxpayer be forced to pay for people who deliberately make themselves ‘unemployable’?

Also, security concerns ARE an issue. Anyone could don a burqa and fool the system.

There is little in the way of rational argument, reasoned positioning, or evidence.
There is a lot of abuse,and posturing.

I will not be back, as I left kindergarden 40 years ago, and have no wish to return.
Do not bother with a response, I will not see it.