http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6195581.stm
Should we ban them now?
2006-12-20 04:16:46 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Yes, this is just perfect, isn't it? I don't think you should ban them, but no one should be allowed to go through security checkpoints without showing their faces. Since there are already female security officers at every airport check in, we should insist that women wearing a veil go into a private room and show their face to the female officer.
2006-12-20 04:23:29 · answer #1 · answered by braennvin2 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
""The Home Office said the claim was unlikely to be true but immigration officers had the power to ask women to lift veils during identity checks.""
A quote from the article you linked to.
Also I recently travelled from the UK, Manchester Airport and was flying to the USA, and let me tell you now, there are VERY stringent ID checks! I also saw one lady wearing a Burkah holding her passport being taken to one side behind a screen to be ID'd by a female officer, as stated in the article that is how they ID people who wear Burkahs.
The article you quoted was very specific in what it reported, so why are you trying to stir up xenophobic trouble by posting this question?
2006-12-20 05:21:20 · answer #2 · answered by toe_jam_on_toast 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I have always thought it was a loop hole that would be abused.
I was in a hospital about 6 years ago following a lady up the stairs,
she was wearing a burkah and veil but I noticed on her feet were men's shoes and trousers, I assumed the person was visiting someone and did not want to be identified.
We have quite strict security at our main airports but I am very wary of small privately owned airports that do not always have proper control some are owned by arab countries which seems madness to me. Last week it was announced that rich Turkish illegal immigrants were entering through small private airstripes, what else is passing unoticed into our country. We have not got borders our government has sold us out.
2006-12-20 04:41:08 · answer #3 · answered by AndyPandy 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
All travellers wearing a Burkah should have to show their faces to identify themselves before boarding a flight. If they have strict religious objections to showing their faces then they should be able to go into a private room and be ID'd by a female officer.
2006-12-21 04:20:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Rubbish made up by the press. A muslim woman on the radio said she has no objection to taking off her veil if done in the correct procedure is followed, but your mind is already made up, isn't it!
2006-12-21 15:51:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Even the best comedy writers in the world could not have come up with this.
The security procedure is non-existant.
A suspected murderer escaped -- is possible.
A suspected murderer of a police officer escaped -- is hard to believe.
A suspected murderer of a police officer escaped, wearing a veil -- is on the verge of impossible.
Ban them NOW!!
2006-12-20 05:29:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes. I laughed and laughed.
This is no reason to ban burqas, if it even happened. The check-in staff at airports just need to be a bit more alert.
2006-12-20 05:12:45 · answer #7 · answered by Huh? 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
9/11 changed everything. No person can look like a bundle of cloth coming down the street anymore. Islam must change with the times. History shows that when any religion that refuses to keep up with changing times has failed. It must come out of the 11th century. They can thank Mr. Bin Laden for that.
2006-12-20 06:52:56 · answer #8 · answered by The professor 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Yeah, the veils have been used as weapons-of-sorts (or at least as means of concealing weapons) quite a lot throughout history already, particularly in French-occupied Algeria in the fight for Algiers.
Watch the movie _Battle of Algiers_, too. It'll make you wonder.
2006-12-20 08:32:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
well its the goverment fault for not banning them in the first place
why wasnt he told to lift up the veil at the airport
why did we let a murderer out on bail
2006-12-20 07:10:24 · answer #10 · answered by liam0_m 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋