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Originally Posted by Dezzy

MTVN and Netto are speaking sense, I pretty much agree with their points.

When it comes to all these 'threats to British Culture' it's quite laughable, Christianity was brought to England by the Romans and they pretty much built us up from nothing, the Anglo Saxons and Vikings left their marks too and with the British Empire we took other elements of other countries as well. Our culture basically consists of a myriad of other countries' cultures and things like Burkhas aren't threatening our culture it's just another newer element to it.

If you want to be quitessentially British go and engage in a few Pagan rituals and have a rave or two in Stone Henge because Paganism is pretty much where we started from, everything else we pretty much borrowed from other countries.

Well said Dezzy, I agree.

Originally Posted by InOne

Usually the types you find in Bristol or Avebury, middle class kids wanting to be 'different'.

Not that that has anything to do with the topic, just felt like saying it

Oi, I'm from Birstol

Originally Posted by WOMBAI

By the same token British women have the right not to have such a blatant representation of female oppression shoved in their faces on their own doorstep!

Angus is right - it is no coincidence that most supporting burkas are male - who clearly have no proper understanding of the subject, how could they! So now you are saying that the rights of Muslim women override the rights of British women!

Maybe some Muslim women do 'choose' to wear the burka - but how many really do and are saying they do because they are being pressurised by men or their culture to do so - or they have been so brainwashed, they actually believe it! It is nowhere near as clear-cut as some imply! People shouldn't take everything at face value - things aren't always what they seem!

Well Netto said she was a female so thats your theory gone.

And we dont know the statistics as to how many UK burqa-wearers have been forced into wearing it, so it's pointless to make presumptions, but I find it unlikely that that the majority are not wearing it out of their own free will.