boring!!!!?

Question

is anyone else bored with the whole muslim veil thing..no disrespect intended as i think live and let live, that is what it means to live in a free society, you can wear whatever you like..im offended by parents who dress their little girls in provocative clothing and exersize my right not to sexualise my kids without infringing on others right to do so...each to their own?

regarding a muslim woman with a veil teaching my children, did the school not notice the veil during the ladys interview??i think kids are more accepting of peoples differences untill adultds impose their views on them..obviously there must be a muslim community in that area so its part of everyday life there, so kids must be used to seeing that fairly regularly

Answer 1

I am far more concerned with the Muslim law (tradition) of stoning women to death for adultery, than I am with veils.

Answer 2

I hear what you say, but would you really want someone teaching your child who's face is covered with a veil and has a slit for the eyes. How intimidating that must be for a child, not to mentioned the childs own right to see someone face. Facial expression tells us so much.

No this Whole Muslim thing as you put has to be thrased out and whilst Muslim women have the right to choose whether they wear the veil or not, the exception to the rule has to be applied in the case of teachers and perhaps in other face to face situations.

Answer 3

I agree that people should wear what they like - however this specific type of clothing opens up security issues. Why do security in local shopping centres disallow anyone from wearing a hoodie with the hood on? Because it prevents security from identifying them.

Just the other day on my way home from work - I witnessed a robbery. I was the closest witness - but because all three lads wore hoodies, I could not give a very good identification to the police. Is it discrimination against fashion victims to ask them not to wear their hoods on their heads when they are in a public shopping area? No - definitely not. It's a matter of public safety. Had I been able to identify the little sh*ts maybe they would have been caught and banged up. But no....... they were not apprehended, and are free to continue pillaging and making the lives of honest business people misery. Who are we actually trying to protect? The shop owner lost everything in that shop to the robbers, and had to shut down. You tell me what exactly is wrong with asking people to keep their faces shown so that we can identify them?

In every day life, I don't care if people wear head coverings, tattoo themselves from top-to-bottom, pierce every square inch of their face and body, run around naked, and various other forms of personal expression.

In an ideal world veils would not hold any danger to anyone whatsoever. However, it has been proved time and again through various painful experiences, that we live in a world where people will take advantage of this specific sort of attire. There are people who would potentially use a veil, in an extreme situation, with intentions to harm other people.

This is not an agenda against muslims as a group or muslim women. This is a very specific security issue - end of story.

You say we live in a 'free society'. Do we? Let's hope we don't live to regret that belief - alot of people who have been struck directly by terrorism would disagree with you. We try our best to uphold human rights, and protect the freedom of our citizens and their right to live life without restraints. Perhaps though the restraints are not uneccessarily being imposed by governments in this situation, the restraints are to protect us.

I used to work in a grocery store in Canada. A local group of Hutterites (a religious sect where the women wore very long dresses all the time), consistently stole from the shop by hiding things under their dresses (ie. bags of potatoes).

Yes they had the right to wear whatever they wanted, but if we suspected that they were stealing, we had the right to search them. That way both sides won.

At the very least, if a woman in a veil is asked to show her face in order to identify her, she should co-operate, for the safety of the society she chooses to inhabit.

It's common sense.

Answer 4

I read an interesting article from a muslim writer who is against the full veil being used in which she wrote about women who have bruised faces after being beaten by their husbands hidden beneath the cloth. This was well before the current debate and shows that it's not always a case of someone wearing whatever they like.

Answer 5

I am totally bored with the muslim veil thing, it opens the whole argument about free society there are shopping centres that have banned caps and hoodies, clubs that have banned jeans and trainers, pubs that have banned workmans ovaeralls and boots, etc etc, how much do we live in a free society it makes me wonder, would a muslim lady in a veil feel threatened walking past a group of hoodies on a dark night on the way to her local shops? I totally agree with you about parents dressing their kids with provocative clothing there are times and places for everything and kids should be kept kids as long as possible.

Answer 6

First of all, I've heard it said that she didn't wear the veil at the interview - there was a man present for what that's worth. Why they wear it is open to question, and is apparently to keep men from looking at them. Obviously they don't mind looking at something that looks as though it's just landed from some unknown planet! However, they've been shot right up the Khyber with yesterdays court result haven't they - and on TV this morning, the town in Belgium where they've BANNED the veil in public, and when one of them who said she was born and bred there and complained about it with all the usual venom, they STILL told her "If you don't like it, then go to the country where your family came from - you can't stay here!"
Someone with a bit of guts at last!!!!!!!

Answer 7

Spot on we live in a democratic society.Think the French though ask people wearing veils to remove them at airports etc for ID purposes and those asked were pleased that checks were taking place at these areas.Otherwise each to their own,some dress codes are very colourful some I do not like but sowhat if you want to wear a particular style for whatever reason thats your thing

Answer 8

The lady in question did not wear her veil during the interview.

She got 1k for injured feelings!!

My view is that this is Great Britain and all members of this tolerant society should conform to the society and if sections of immigrants don't agree and will not conform then they should go somewhere more suited to their beliefs.

Answer 9

This is about equality. Muslims get away with far too much just because they are muslim. I have nothing against the muslim faith but in this day and age - hidden faces are not acceptable if only from a security point of view.

Answer 10

I agree with what you say about parents who dress their daughters up like tarts.