Banning the Burka
It is bound to come up as an issue now and in the future in western countries – the wearing of burkas and hijabs. There has been a call from Australian retailers for a ban on the wearing of the full-faced burka for the practical reason that it is harder to identify individual faces when thefts take place.
Just think of it – it is surely not possible for a woman wearing a burka to have a driver’s licence photo with her face covered. Is this an insult Mr Trad? And she would have to show that photo to any policeman who asked for it, if her happened to stop her car on the road, as happens with other ordinary citizens. Is that now to be forbidden too – different rules for Muslim women? And she would have to show her face on a passport photo – for surely the Australian Passport office has not reached such depths of lunacy yet, as to include faces of covered women in the section for such photos? So where is the consistency – insistence of the face shown in some situations, and not in others?
If it is a question of veils for nuns, or if Muslim women want to wear a hijab, I would let that pass, but not the burka, the wearing of which is an action which is an affront to the western respect for women [the principle is there and it is enacted in practice, even if not always so]. The burka states principles antithetical to the heart of western values – that women and men are equal in dignity [showing the face does not impede this in any way] and that as human being we have free will and can choose to behave with decency and are not subject to fits of uncontrollable behaviour, just because a face is shown. These principles of human dignity and free will have long been a part of western thinking and should not be discarded lightly, just because some group has a hissy fit about dressing up.. Muslim migrants should adapt to the west, whose hospitality they enjoy [welfare, public housing, free public schooling, healthcare etc etc] and some basic human decency in face to face gestures and communication should be insisted upon.
Accept the rules of the country you are living in or just get back to your country,nobody is stopping you.