Just asking if you would,

[trt]

shop at your corner shop, your local supermarket or any retailers if you were served by somebody wearing a Burkha?
The reason I asked was on BBC1 Q time tonight it was suggested that it would be OK for Muslim women to wear them in public in the UK, as long as they would show their face if asked for security?

I personally would not shop at any business if i couldn't see the persons face I was handing my money too!

[237SJ]

Wouldn`t have any problem with it at all. The goods they are handing over are the same no matter what the shop assistant looks like. Better someone wearing a burkha who is clean and neat, rather than some scabby person on the deli counter with filthy finger nails who blows their nose before handling the food

[Mamyalynne]

Can't see a problem personally.

[trt]

237SJ,
How do you know that someone wearing a burkha is clean and neat?

[237SJ]

Because I have had to wear one when I have been working in Saudi Arabia and not everyone underneath a burkha is filthy and alien

[trt]

237SJ,
so I take it you are Muslim, otherwise it wouldn't have been compulsory, I worked in UAE for 11 years no one was pressured to wear one unless they wanted a rich Arab.

[237SJ]

I`m not a muslim and Saudi isn`t UAE

[trt]

By the way 237SJ,

I never said that everyone underneath a burkha is filthy and alien, you said that and must know more than I do?

[237SJ]

Well my geography`s obviously better. However, much as I would love to discuss it I`m off to bed now

[trt]

I never said that UAE was is in Saudi, I said I worked there.

And why did you have to wear a burkha when you are not a Muslim, never heard of that before?

[trt]

237SJ,

you are off to bed because you don't know what you are talking about or other cultures.

[Mamyalynne]

Now doc has a very valid point there.

[EngTeach]

I would have to travel too far out of my way to find a local shop without someone wearing one. The man and woman who own one of our dollar stores are lovely too me and she "covers". There are others that I choose not to frequent because of attitude rather than nationality.

[brenda]

It wouldn't make any difference to me , providing the assistant hand clean hands and said thank you at the end of the transaction.

[sandyRoe]

There's a shoe shop in Oxford St, London, where one of the assistants wears a burkha. She sells shoes, where's the problem?

[boxtops]

of course I would trt - and like 237SJ, I had to cover when I went to Saudi Arabia. ALL women have to cover there, it's the law for Muslims and non-Muslims, but it's up to you whether you just wear normal hijab (long coverall and headscarf is most appropriate) or wear the burka or niqab which actually cover your face. Many residents wore niqab so kept their eyes on view, but others covered completely when out of the house. It's the norm - the women I met just did it without thinking about it, a bit like we put on our raincoat to go out. Women are wearing ordinary clothes under the outer covering, some had very posh clothes and beautiful hairdos too.
It makes no odds to me whether I can see the whole face of the person I am giving the money to - it's another woman, not a Martian. Where however there is a question of security (and as we have discussed many times before, in a bank or at the airport) then the face should be shown.

[sara3]

trt, you're such a miserable old ****