[Vicky.]

I dont think it should be banned altogether, people should have the freedom to wear what they want, if they chose to.

However, it should be banned for security reasons...IE it would have to be removed in banks, airports, scools, even garages...same as most places dont allow balaclavas.

[Tom]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

I dont think it should be banned altogether, people should have the freedom to wear what they want, if they chose to.

However, it should be banned for security reasons...IE it would have to be removed in banks, airports, scools, even garages...same as most places dont allow balaclavas.

If hoodies and helmets are banned in most places then why should burkas be allowed?

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Tom

If hoodies and helmets are banned in most places then why should burkas be allowed?

Umm...read my post properly...

For security reasons, it should be banned...banks, school, garages etc...

[Angus]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Umm...read my post properly...

For security reasons, it should be banned...banks, school, garages etc...

I'm just as worried by seeing them in the streets and shopping malls - anything could be hidden under a burka, after all what a perfect disguise for anyone intent on mischief! (male or female). If any of us went out with our faces completely covered up we would naturally be viewed with suspicion and no wonder!

As I said earlier there is no RELIGIOUS requirement for women to wear a burka, and as for cultural ones, we are in England now and perhaps its about time our views were respected. The burka is a very real, in your face, symbol of the perceived inferiority and subordination of women, and personally I find it offensive and degrading. This is a classic case of one person's human rights (to wear the burka) being the infringement of another person's human rights (mine to feel free and safe in my own land). We have also not addressed here how many of the women who wear burkas have been FORCED to do so- so much for freedom and equality when the subjugation of women is still enabled by mealy mouthed, politically correct politicians.

We are an extremely tolerant nation and no fuss whatever is made of any other immigrants wearing their national dress and neither should there be, but the burka is entirely different, for obvious reasons, and I admire those countries that have now made a stand on this issue.

After all, women cannot walk around middle eastern countries in anything deemed immodest without severe consequences, (I should know as I've lived in several). We have to respect other countries' laws and sensibilities. Unfortunately we have made the very wrong precedent over here of putting the rights and desires of immigrants to our country over those of the indigenous population.