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Burqa Versus The Motorcycle Helmet.
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Do you believe in fair and equal treatment for those entering banks, relating to showing their face for security reasons? Yes or no? The person wearing the motorbike helmet merely asked a question. Perhaps the answer should have been, of course the person hiding their face with a burkha should be allowed to do so, but not for the person wearing the bike helmet, because it's 'kind of'against the law to ask them to take their clothes off?! Riiiiiiggggggght!
"It's kind of illegal to force someone to take off their clothes when going into a building.."
Really?
I've visited a number of buildings in central London (including the Royal Albert Hall) where I have been asked to remove my overcoat and on one occasion my jacket. More than that, try getting through security at any airport without removing your hat, coat, scarf, jacket, gloves, very often your shoes and occasionally even more than that. I accept that at that point you are not technically "entering a building" but simply moving to a different part of the one you're already in but the principle applies.
I hope you don't consider I'm too thick by pointing this out. There's nothing illegal or unreasonable to expect people to show their faces when entering any public establishment or for that matter a private one. (I wouldn't allow anybody into my house when masked up). The sooner Muslim women understand that people in this country do not routinely go about masked up the better. Nobody can prevent the stupidity of some women to accede to the wearing of this ridiculous garment but no special provisions should be made for them to do so.
Really?
I've visited a number of buildings in central London (including the Royal Albert Hall) where I have been asked to remove my overcoat and on one occasion my jacket. More than that, try getting through security at any airport without removing your hat, coat, scarf, jacket, gloves, very often your shoes and occasionally even more than that. I accept that at that point you are not technically "entering a building" but simply moving to a different part of the one you're already in but the principle applies.
I hope you don't consider I'm too thick by pointing this out. There's nothing illegal or unreasonable to expect people to show their faces when entering any public establishment or for that matter a private one. (I wouldn't allow anybody into my house when masked up). The sooner Muslim women understand that people in this country do not routinely go about masked up the better. Nobody can prevent the stupidity of some women to accede to the wearing of this ridiculous garment but no special provisions should be made for them to do so.
Just to correct what appears to be a misconception. The Iranian female covering to meet the traditional dress code for appearing in public is called a chador. This is in fact a single sheet of fabric cut at one side into a semicircle (the whole thing being shaped rather like a D) and it is placed with the mid point of the straight edge onto the head and then the two sides are wrapped around the body. It does not normally/necessarily cover the face although cartoonists often depict an older woman covering half the face and the whole of the mouth. The point about the older woman featuring is that the chador is a less and less often seen garment in Iran.
Underneath the chador the person is fully dressed, usually in standard clothing that would fit/match what any woman would wear in towns and cities anywhere in the world. The burqa is not seen worn by local women in Iran outside the very southeast where Arabs are among the indigenous population.
Underneath the chador the person is fully dressed, usually in standard clothing that would fit/match what any woman would wear in towns and cities anywhere in the world. The burqa is not seen worn by local women in Iran outside the very southeast where Arabs are among the indigenous population.
Emmie. I don't see anything wrong with the Hijab.
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spath - you could wear both together.....two negatives making a positive perhaps?
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