Cleric Says Newborn Baby Girls Should Wear The Burkha

[mrs_overall]

Appalling.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2273308/Sheikh-Abdullah-Daoud-Saudi-cleric-sparks-outrage-calling-baby-girls-wear-burka.html#axzz2K6T2ah9Y

[rockyracoon]

The man's a idiot and belongs in prison, bloody pervert.

[mrs_overall]

Morning rocky. Can I say one word to you.....scrabble?

[emmie]

almost as good as the link you contributed to about the Magdalen laundries, stupidity and backwards thinking seem to be the common bond.

[Psybbo]

Morning mrs_O, appalling!
back to you

[rockyracoon]

OMG! Sorry Mrs O, I'll get right to it today. ;)

[FredPuli43]

A news item of no interest to anybody except Muslims, and Saudi Muslims at that.
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[emmie]

really, so not likely to end up here then?

[mrs_overall]

Fred, does that apply to ALL news items relating to other countries?

[grasscarp]

So you change the nappy. Pop up the babygro and then add a burka? The baby is going to overheat.

[Smowball]

He's a complete and utter nutcase.

[FredPuli43]

Put it in British terms. If some bishop somewhere came out with some lunatic statement like that, one which the rest of the church hierarchy immediately rejected as contrary to the teachings of the religion , what are the chances of Christians anywhere, here or abroad, following it ?

[mrs_overall]

I bet that some fanatic somewhere will heed his advice and some poor newborn will suffer

[grasscarp]

In Hayes I see little girls with veils. They are infants and I wonder why.

[emmie]

i see very young girls wearing the burkha where i live, not one veiled as yet, but plenty of women who are, barbaric.

[emmie]

pretty much like this

http://www.secularism.org.uk/blog/2012/08/women-can-choose-to-wear-the-burka--but-can-they-choose-not-to

[FredPuli43]

Mrs O, now you're being mischievous. Of course, foreign news is in British papers. An item like this hardly merits any coverage. What is the importance of it to the readership of the Daily Mail ? "Foreign Muslim cleric makes daft ruling". It might merit a 'tailpiece' of a three sentences of the 'it's a funny old world' variety

[mrs_overall]

Me? Mischievous? Perish the thought ;-)

[Psybbo]

Mischievous??? There must be a stronger word.

[mrs_overall]

Careful sibs, you are sailing close to the wind.
A slap from a wet marigold can sometimes offend

[Psybbo]

Hides quickly