Belgium bans the Burka.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....-faces-draft-law.html

How is it that Belgium and it seems soon other European countries can ban the Burka, yet if we tried to implement this ruling in the UK, the European Court of Human Rights would soon be down on us?

[123everton]

I've only got a minute, please explain this statement " Muslims who find the laws in the west unacceptable have a free choice to return to their own country where the laws will suit them better."
In contrast to this one " I haven't suggested SENDING anyone anywhere."

[naomi24]

I would have thought it was self-explanatory, but apparently not. If someone makes a free choice to live elsewhere, they are not being compelled to go and therefore they are not being sent. Simple.

[123everton]

These people were free to leave this country,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_St._Louis
This man helped them.
http://neuronarrative...chmann-two-faces3.jpg
Your solution tells people that they are not welcome in their own country, that there's no room for people like them, the politician in you may produce such weasel words, but they fool nobody.
It is a fascist solution to ban the burkha, because it is a law that merely expresses and imposes the power of the state.
I for one do not want to live in a fascist country, perhaps you do?

[naomi24]

Just stop, Everton, for your own sake. Now you really are making a complete fool of yourself.

[KARL]

I have just dropped in and am too lazy to read all the replies/comments so please forgive me if I repeat something already mentioned. I do not have a particularly strong view on whether to ban or not to ban except for the notion that wearing such garb is hugely hindering and fundamentally unnatural except where covering the face is done as a means of wearing a filter/mask of some sort against the risk of ingesting something harmful. The costume (burka) is one that arose out of social custom which is based almost entirely on the tut-tutting of busybodies and overflowing jealousy that has been given the dubious kudos of religious approval in some quarters (disputed and opposed by many Muslim scholars). In short, it is something taught as an accepted custom for custom's sake. I have little or no sympathy for such indoctrination (had the same women been born and brought up in the jungle they would walk around bare breasted, because covering is not needed in the absence of concerns over modesty, and do nobody any harm nor offend any god - nobody would take notice). In western society, nudity by western definition (indoctrinated or not) is regarded as potentially offensive in the streets and is therefore outlawed. The opposite end of the spectrum is being looked at and, for one, I think that is a legitimate area for discussion and legislation and does not in my mind equate to fascism.

[123everton]

Foolish as it may seem to you, the reality is that they were not forced to leave, but they were really left no choice.
The laws were changed to make life worse for them, so they left.
Your solution is a slippery slope advocated by the B.N.P and the E.D.L, such august company you people keep.
And still, foolish as it may seem, can you not answer why such a law is not fascist?
I'll repeat my assertion, this law is merely a demonstration of state power.