Call for More Burqas!

France just banned the burqa and other countries are following suit.  Yet Alveena Malik thinks the burqa needs to be as much the part of British culture as warm beer or boiled meat.  Sadly, I prefer warm beer to a burqa but hey, that's how this kuffir rolls.  See the entire story here.           

More Sharia in Britain, Pt 1,427

As firebrand disbarred barrister Anjem Choudary chants that the flag of Islam will one day fly over

#10 Downing Street

and the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams actively advocates for sharia courts instead of British commonlaw, the march from within government towards that green flag fluttering over Downing Street becomes more real.

   From the Telegraph, one of England’s oldest newspapers comes this article, written by Tim Ross, explaining how it is now vitally important to embrace the burqa as being “…a part of a modern British way of life.”  That statement, from Alveena Malik, former faith advisor for the last labor government and now member of the think-tank Civitas appears in the new report “Women, Islam and Western Liberalism” published by Civitas.  Ms. Malik says that the burqa, as a religious symbol needs to be seen only in the context of safety and work productivity.  “The real test for religious symbols in the public sphere should always be: ‘Does the wearing of a symbol (such as the kirpan, turban, yarmulke, crucifix and the veil) hinder a citizen’s ability to perform their public civic duties?”  she says, yet the burqa, niqab and hijab have been challenged within the civic sphere as to their ability to hamper or hinder public duties.        

   In Florida, the DMV has had problems with photographing Muslim women for a drivers license (something rarely seen in Saudi Arabia), the women claiming religious freedoms despite state law prohibiting anything which covers or hides the face when taking pictures for a license.  Some banks have had to address the delicate nature of bank accounts with ID photos, or even the face-to-face identity usually provided when making any type of transaction.  France, meanwhile has just banned the burqa and other European countries are following suit.

   Here are a few civic jobs burqa-clad women cannot do: firefighter, EMT, bicycle cop, social worker, teacher, public utilities lineman, credit union loan officer, there are many more but suffice to say if we use Ms. Maliks formula as a measuring stick, there could be more repercussions that as of now have not been addressed or contemplated.

   With European countries debating the banning of the burqa and France already passing a law prohibiting the burqa in public, the groundswell of a cultural awakening is beginning to show its head among the European elite.  Jacques Myard, senior member of Sarkozy’ UMP party says “Allowing women to exclude themselves from society by wearing the full Islamic veil makes radicals extremely comfortable, and Britain should realise this.”  He also said that the relaxed im migration and integration policies in Britian have “opened the door to terrorism”

   Alveena Malik believes that England should embrace the burqa and make it a part of British culture.  France has seen fit to separate the secular from the religious and Britian should keep to the same standard.  If Ms. Malik truly believes the burqa should be part of the British lifestyle then let it be in the privacy of her own home.  A symbol of oppression against women has no place within the purview of the public at large.