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Immigration Minister Says Britain Should NOT Seek Burqa Ban
No, Britain wouldn't want to have as much spine as the French, now would they?
For Christ's sake.
From Reuters:
Asma Patel, a local Muslim, wears a veil known as a niqab, as she arrives for a constituency meeting with Britain's Leader of the House of Commons Jack Straw in Blackburn, northern England, October 13, 2006.
Credit: Reuters/Phil Noble
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's parliament should not try to ban wearing full-length veils in public after France's lower house passed a bill which could see Muslim women fined for wearing the burqa, immigration minister Damian Green said.
"It's very unlikely and it would be undesirable for the British Parliament to try and pass a law dictating what people wore," Green said in an interview with the Sunday Telegraph newspaper, published on online late Saturday.
"I stand personally on the feeling that telling people what they can and can't wear, if they're just walking down the street, is a rather un-British thing to do," he added. "We're a tolerant and mutually respectful society."
His comments came as one of his fellow Conservative members of parliament, Philip Hollobone, who has put forward a bill which would restrict people from covering their face in public, said he would refuse to hold meetings with Muslim women unless they removed their face veil as he could not engage with them.
His comments came as one of his fellow Conservative members of parliament, Philip Hollobone, who has put forward a bill which would restrict people from covering their face in public, said he would refuse to hold meetings with Muslim women unless they removed their face veil as he could not engage with them.
Green said that as France was a more aggressively secular state the move had been more politically acceptable there.
A ban on wearing the burqa in France, home to Western Europe's largest Muslim minority, would not be likely to have an impact on immigration in Britain, Green said.
Of France's 5 million Muslims, it is thought only about 2,000 women wear the full-length veil.
Meanwhile,
If you believe the mainstream media, this makes two-thirds of the British people racists and bigots. But in reality, of course, they just want to stand up for some cultural standards, and ask immigrants to conform to the customs and mores of their new home -- and that is, of course, exactly what all too many Muslims are determined not to do. "Majority of Brits want burkas banned, from AFP, July 17 (thanks to all who sent this in):
Two-thirds of British people would support a ban on Muslim women wearing face-covering veils in public, similar to the one approved by French lawmakers this week, a poll has found. An online survey of 2,205 adults for Five News television found 67 per cent of respondents agreed that the burka - the full-face veil - should be banned.
That figure rose to 80 per cent among people aged over 55.
The YouGov poll was carried out between Wednesday and Friday (local time), after France's lower house of parliament voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to ban full Islamic veils in public spaces.
Similar laws are pending in Belgium, Spain and some Italian municipalities, but the ban is particularly sensitive in France, whose rundown city suburbs are home to Europe's biggest Muslim minority.
A Harris poll for the Financial Times in March revealed Britons were among the most tolerant in Europe towards the Islamic veil, with just 57 per cent backing a ban, compared to 70 per cent in France and 65 per cent in Spain....
When governments cease to represent the will of their people, they invite the people to depose the government, ultimately, by any means necessary.
The British government is playing a dangerous game. No one desires violence, but what do they think is going to happen if they steal the people's will from them?
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