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Burqa Poll
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TigerForce said:
Burqas are very rarely seen, I live in Broadmeadows, a suburb that is basically filled up with Lebanese, Turkish, Arab people etc and even I hardly see a female wearing a Burqa, the more common one is just the Scarf.
Ridley said:
Very insightful post.
Massive non issue.
The burqa is removed for a passport photo, at immigration control, and when you get your drivers license.
Most banks ask for it to be removed, but some have made special arrangements where their existing established clients can come in at pre arranged times.
As one cop said once, he did a global search once and could not find a single instance of an armed robbery being committed by people disguised in a burqa.
The burqa is removed for a passport photo, at immigration control, and when you get your drivers license.
Most banks ask for it to be removed, but some have made special arrangements where their existing established clients can come in at pre arranged times.
As one cop said once, he did a global search once and could not find a single instance of an armed robbery being committed by people disguised in a burqa.
rosy23 said:
I was being sarcastic, you tell me how this post below contributes in any way to the discussion. :
Ridley said:
rosy23 said:
If I was wearing a burqa, how would they know my gender :hihi
I can do a great falsetto.
Streak said:
'20 questions' before any transaction would clear the gender question, Streak.
I think however there’s a time and place for wearing the burqa – while performing sensitive laboratory works or open heart surgery for example, during school photos and family portraits, and even the pole dancing profession could launch a case for the burqa.
African lions, I’m guessing, are probably pro burqa too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M254tkZrfz0
I make fun of the burqa only because I think it is an issue.
From my pov women wearing the burqa is contrary to the entire concept of equality.
If a woman freely chooses to wear a burqa because she wants to withdraw from the public view then fine, that would be her choice. To do so habitually would suggest she needs counseling but hey again, that would be her choice. Lots of people withdraw from society in lots of different ways - wearing burqa would be one.
But for women to wear the burqa in order to conform to cultural or religious laws laid down by men is as I said contrary to the concept of equality and as far as I’m concerned not welcome in Australia.
Why anyone living here in a society which prides itself on a history of struggling for equality would tolerate pandering to cultural or religious male minority concepts imported from appallingly male dominated repressive societies like Afghanistan, Pakistan and others is beyond me.
It might be that we feel so disconnected from a woman wearing a full burqa - we know there’s a human in there somewhere but what the eye doesn’t see ……- that it easy to tolerate, but the sight always sends shivers down my spine. If I had a daughter I wonder if she would like having to wear a burqa to keep her man happy.
From my pov women wearing the burqa is contrary to the entire concept of equality.
If a woman freely chooses to wear a burqa because she wants to withdraw from the public view then fine, that would be her choice. To do so habitually would suggest she needs counseling but hey again, that would be her choice. Lots of people withdraw from society in lots of different ways - wearing burqa would be one.
But for women to wear the burqa in order to conform to cultural or religious laws laid down by men is as I said contrary to the concept of equality and as far as I’m concerned not welcome in Australia.
Why anyone living here in a society which prides itself on a history of struggling for equality would tolerate pandering to cultural or religious male minority concepts imported from appallingly male dominated repressive societies like Afghanistan, Pakistan and others is beyond me.
It might be that we feel so disconnected from a woman wearing a full burqa - we know there’s a human in there somewhere but what the eye doesn’t see ……- that it easy to tolerate, but the sight always sends shivers down my spine. If I had a daughter I wonder if she would like having to wear a burqa to keep her man happy.
Tiger74 said:
He didn't look that hard then. Googled 'burqa bank robbery'. This is what came up first.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/7189090/Burka-wearing-gunmen-raid-French-bank.html
"Two burka-wearing bank robbers have pulled off a heist near Paris using a handgun concealed beneath their full Islamic veil. ........"
This was the second..
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3745402
"Authorities in North Carolina don't know whether they are looking for a man or a woman in the search for a burqa-wearing bandit who walked into a bank Tuesday and pointed a gun at a teller before exiting with a bag full of money.........."
The third wasn't a bank robbery and happened in NSW, although I don't know why it's reported in a UK newsapaper.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1273588/Gunman-dressed-burka-sunglasses-robs-cash-courier.html
"A gunman dressed in a head-to-toe black burqa and sunglasses robbed a cash courier in a shopping centre car park.
The courier had just withdrawn a large amount of money from a bank yesterday when he spotted two men following him, Australian police said...."
It doesn't happen a lot, but it does happen. I have no problem if women wish to wear it, but the face should be visible in places where security is a concern. Or if a cop asks to rmove it for identification, which from what I have read in the papers, doesn't seem to be an issue.
Jus on a side note, not being a muslim woman that wears one, and just seeing pictures of the burqa, does it restrict vision, peripheral vision, when driving?
