Was It In Order For This Bus Driver To Ask His Passenger To Remove Her Veil?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6046771/Bus-driver-demanded-Muslim-woman-removed-veil-got-board.html

[Spicerack]

andy-hughes
//Since the driver would have heard the passenger speak it would already be clear that she is a young woman, and not a burly bloke//

How transphobic. Report to PC Headquarters for reprogramming.

[Peter Pedant]

// No-one had dementia;//

o god after reading this thread - I think I might have dementia

[Peter Pedant]

// How transphobic.//
try Sparkle week end in manchester - one has just gone

a week end for men wearing women's clothes .....

[sanmac]

I might have used this before, but it's still appropriate. Most of AH's comments are aptly described by Alexander Pope's quote: "Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found."

[vetuste_ennemi]

Pope?
Where angels fear to tread...
Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

[vetuste_ennemi]

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, drink deep nor taste not the Pierian spring.

Only by googling did I get the following couplet;

"there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
and drinking largely sobers us again."

I'm experimenting with both clauses in that sentence.

[waterboatman]

I can see his point. But since the passenger had a baby with her, she was unlikely to blow up the bus or carry out any other act of terrorism.

[Smowball]

The sad thing is that I can see both sides. I live in London. Everyday is a challenge.

[waterboatman]

You're right sadly smow.

[vetuste_ennemi]

"For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known".

[vetuste_ennemi]

Not a point the beards and their birqa slaves will understand. Although, don't forget, diversity is our strength.

[sandyRoe]

For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place
The bus may bear me far,
I dread to see the driver face to face
When I will pay the fare

[vetuste_ennemi]

Apologies. The burqa clad women are not slaves; they are the lawful property of their husbands, but with the rights of Muslim wives.

Slave women (under sharia) are forbidden to expose their lower parts, but are permitted to expose their upper parts. Therefore the bloke with the pillar box wife or wives can have as many topless infidel slaves as his lust and pocket can afford.

[Spicerack]

We shouldn't tell any women what they can wear.

Except Grid Girls, of course. ;)

[vetuste_ennemi]

I'm possibly misinformed on this point.

The many experts who specialise on sharia will correct this particular Islamophobe.

Over to you, Peter Pedant.

Other botton feeders?

[1ozzy]

Please refrain from adding anymore answers to this thread.

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/AB-Editors-Blog/Question1618586.html

Wouldn't want AOG to suffer rsi of the Digitus Secundus Manus by having to click more than required.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Ah, Breitbart right on song.

Rules banning grid girls. Why? Sexual exploitation blah blah blah?

Rules "protecting" women dressed in dust-bin bags. Woman's right to choose?

Any woman on AB who wants to wear the burqa stick her hand up now.

[anotheoldgit]

I wonder if the bus company, would demand that this woman removed her burqa, if she drove one of their buses?

[Zacs-Master]

Why don’t you write and ask them? (Or tweet them. Their twitter account is @FirstBusnews)

[fiction-factory]

See this about drivers wearing burkas