Hijab creates trouble on school bus.

[anotheoldgit]

Another Bus story

http://www.dailymail....girls-wear-hijab.html

I wonder if the police would put officers on board the school bus, if a group of school children were bulling another pupil, because he was wearing the wrong make of trainer?

What is wrong in these girls removing their veils, before boarding the bus?

[Quinlad]

An unusual topic for you.

[McMouse]

There's a veiled threat here

[redman41]

The way round this is to wear a Liverpool or Everton scarf over their heads instead of a veil

[Sandy-Wroe]

The hijab isn't causing trouble. It's a group of bullies who are the troublemakers. They are picking on someone because she dresses differently.

[Sandy-Wroe]

Ah Liverpool. That explains everything.

[sp1814]

"What is wrong in these girls removing their veils, before boarding the bus?"

Oh...come...on...!

[standian]

Not saying that it is right or less serious for children to bully one another, but in this case, the "bullying" or different treatment is coming from adults who frankly are paid to provide a public service and should not be demonstrating such ill-educated and puerile attitudes - and if it takes some officers riding on the buses to show them that, then so be it.

The girls are wearing the hijab, not the niqaab so it is not a veil but a head covering - no different from an elderly lady wearing a head scarf for example.

[tamborine]

complaint is 'alleged' - who is stirring up trouble?

Lots have heads covered with beanies/scarves/hoodies etc against this winter.

Muslim complaint = muslim whinge

[sp1814]

AOG

Do you think that Jews should take off their skull caps, in case they encounter antisemetic thugs?

Don't you think the onus here is on expelling the filthy anti-Muslim scumbags on public transport?

Why not let THEM walk home in the rain?

[Gromit]

Typical, when you are not running the country down, you are taking the side of cowardly bullies.

[B00]

I thought most (all?) school busses had conductors (ie, someone to make sure the little 'darlings' behave) on them?

[jno]

you aren't concerned that drivers are refusing to do their job?

[B00]

Har de Har vibra!

No seriously, i thought they did? Just on school busses I mean anyway. They do round here anyway and my area isn't THAT rough.

[sp1814]

B00

It depends on the part of the country where you live.

In London, we had conductors on the old Routemaster buses, and the for a while on their replacements - but I haven't seen a conductor on any of our buses now for about a decade.

The answer to this problem (with the girls wearing the hijab, is to let them on, and the moment anyone starts on them, stop the bus and get the bullies ejected.

This would be an inconvenience to begin with, but once the bigots went through this a couple of times, they would soon learn to shut their odious gobs.

Seriously - how weird is this story?

Imagine you're on a bus, reading a paper, and a girl gets on wearing a hajib. You would have to put your paper away, get up, walk over to her and abuse her!

That simply doesn't make any sense.

AOG - the line you've taken is really quite shameful. I only hope you're taking this ridiculous line in order to provoke a debate.

[anotheoldgit]

What most of you fail to notice is the fact that on school buses there is quite a bit of bulling, insults, and general chaos, that goes off, they are kids.

In the past there has always been an adult to supervise the kids, but with the present cost cutting exercises, these are luxuries we can no longer afford.

But it is the first time I know of, that policemen have been put on board, to oversee and protect a certain group of children.

The next thing they will demand will be special Muslim buses.

[jno]

special Muslim buses that only drive in the direction of Mecca?

[Hazel104]

No the racist's are causing the problem not the hijab.

[standian]

Well said Hazel104.

I think for me the difference here AOG is that the bullying and insulting is coming from adults (bus drivers)...not so much other kids on the bus.

And I don't think this is the only example of this type of police presence - something similar happened in a town where I used to live with police being on buses that took a lot of young people with learning disabilities to college/school who were getting grief on the bus, including from drivers.