More on burka banning, comment please
As you may already be aware (and if you weren’t you soon will be) that the Daily Mail website, amongst its articles has little “mini polls” where you can click yes or no in response to a topical question. Questions such as “Does Britain still have a special relationship with America ?” After selecting yes or no you get to see the results.
You may also be aware that I don’t believe in banning the burka, from my recent posts on the subject. So on this article here: The burka empowering women? You must be mad, minister. I spotted a poll (presumably some of the polls on the specific pages are contextual and bear a relationship to the article surrounding them) entitled “Should Britain ban women from wearing a burka in public ?” and voted no. Here are the results at the time of writing this article:
Now maybe I just don’t “get it”, but do 88% of British people really want to ban the burka in Britain ? I just don’t understand the problem here. I get the whole thing about possible coercion into wearing them and the idea they are a “walking coffin” (in some people’s minds) but do 88% of British people (well 88% of the Daily Mail readers who do polls at least) care one way or the other about burkas ? Is banning them not just replacing one form of control with another ? Maybe I’m just stupid, but I really don’t see what all the fuss is about. If you’re one of the “yes” crowd then please explain what the problem is you have with them.
Thanks in advance.
Steve
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I would have to agree, but prob not for the same reason as everyone else. I simply believe that if you choose to come and live in this country then you should be prepared to live as british person.
We don’t wear Burka’s, we don’t have our desks facing Mekka, we don’t force our kids to have arranged marriages and murder them if they don’t like it calling it a mercy killing, we don’t treat our women like a piece of meat (in general)… get the idea.
If people wish to continue with these depraved beliefs and live these lifestyles which are quite frankly offensive to the rest of us, then they should stay in their own country and do it.
If we go to other countries, we don’t get away with behaving like british people, we have to follow their rules and respect their beliefs. It should work both ways.
Snake
26 Jul 10 at 11:25 pm
Also do you seriously think all those poor women really like wearing those burkas? If you Read he article. it is actually written by a Muslim women, so that backs up what we all know.
So banning the burka would be doing a favour to all those women and finally freeing them from their torment.
Snake
26 Jul 10 at 11:33 pm
I don’t disagree with you in most respects. My point is however, that they should be free to choose to wear them IF THEY WANT TO. It might not be “British” to wear them but at the end of the day it’s surely irrelevant to most of us, nobody’s asking us to wear them after all ….
Who are you to condemn something as depraved ? Way I see it as long as what they do is not illegal, and doesn’t hurt anyone I have no issue with it. If they have arranged marriages for example then so be it. It is up to the Muslims, if they want to change marriages, to do so from within their own culture. Coercion is never the answer when it comes to culture.
ethicalcompanies
27 Jul 10 at 8:44 am
YOu were doing a poll on the Daily Mail website! I’m surprised it wasn’t 100%. YOu’re not gonna get a non biased reflective view there. Daily Mail = Daily Shame. Shame on you for even visiting it.
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henrietta pretty
17 Aug 10 at 6:36 pm