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Angela Merkel calls for ban on burqa in Germany
Is there a German election soon?
![]() http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a7458536.html Hasn't she had a decade in office to do this? |
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Is there a German election soon?
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Is there a German election soon?
![]() http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a7458536.html Hasn't she had a decade in office to do this? Never be repeated by whom? |
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I won't hold my breath for it to happen over here any time soon.
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I must be the only person who's ever gone into a petrol station and been asked to cover my face up.....
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Is there a German election soon?
![]() http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a7458536.html Hasn't she had a decade in office to do this? " He said the law would apply in “places where it is necessary for our society's coexistence” including government offices, schools and universities, courtrooms as well as demonstrations." " Dutch MPs voted for a similar prohibition in the Netherlands last month, covering public transport, education, healthcare and government buildings and punishing any infractions with fines." " Support for bans on full-face veils has been growing across Europe since France became the first country to implement such a law in 2011, followed by France, Belgium, Bulgaria and parts of Switzerland." Trump could well do something like this in America, what about the UK? |
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Merkel should be in the political equivalent of a burqa for her role in the migrant crisis.
I hope they are eventually banned here on 2 grounds 1. The burqa provides tacit support for a "cultural" way of restricting women from full British life 2. As someone with partial hearing (why I work from home) face veils drive me - and others who use lipreading to support their hearing - mad when worn by shop assistants, bank workers, health staff and the like. |
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Certainly should be done in the UK, should have been done years ago.
As for Merkel she knows that her "refugee" policy is not a vote winner and is trying to look tough in time for the election. The Germans, being generally pretty much supine, will no doubt vote for her again. |
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I hope we don't go down this route. It's one thing to allow institutions to decide on acceptable dress code, as occured in court of law recently, it's another for the state to legislate more widely what people can and can't wear. Clearly it's electioneering. It's the sort of shoddy electioneering that panders to certain prejudices in our population.
I think if we copy the French and Dutch in this we will have thrown away something that is very precious. That Anglo Saxon attitude that it's no one else's bloody business what someone chooses to wear. |
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I hope we don't go down this route. It's one thing to allow institutions to decide on acceptable dress code, as occured in court of law recently, it's another for the state to legislate more widely what people can and can't wear. Clearly it's electioneering. It's the sort of shoddy electioneering that panders to certain prejudices in our population.
I think if we copy the French and Dutch in this we will have thrown away something that is very precious. That Anglo Saxon attitude that it's no one else's bloody business what someone chooses to wear. Is promoting medieval dress which results in women entirely covering their face and body really something to celebrate - it just promotes separation and division. The Hijab or head scarf is perfectly sufficient to achieve modesty and seems perfectly acceptable to the vast majority of Muslim women. The burqa is Saudi imposed dress - you never see women in Muslim nations like Malaysia wearing it. |
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Merkel should be in the political equivalent of a burqa for her role in the migrant crisis.
I hope they are eventually banned here on 2 grounds 1. The burqa provides tacit support for a "cultural" way of restricting women from full British life 2. As someone with partial hearing (why I work from home) face veils drive me - and others who use lipreading to support their hearing - mad when worn by shop assistants, bank workers, health staff and the like. I do see them out shopping etc in the burqa. Are they the same women who wear westernised clothes at work, and wear the burqa in their spare time, or do the burqa-wearing ones not work? Quote:
I hope we don't go down this route. It's one thing to allow institutions to decide on acceptable dress code, as occured in court of law recently, it's another for the state to legislate more widely what people can and can't wear. Clearly it's electioneering. It's the sort of shoddy electioneering that panders to certain prejudices in our population.
I think if we copy the French and Dutch in this we will have thrown away something that is very precious. That Anglo Saxon attitude that it's no one else's bloody business what someone chooses to wear. |
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That's interesting - I live in a high Asian population area, and though I see a lot of Asian women in various workplaces, I've never seen one in a burqa.
I do see them out shopping etc in the burqa. Are they the same women who wear westernised clothes at work, and wear the burqa in their spare time, or do the burqa-wearing ones not work? I agree. |
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Fantastic news if true.
Big IF though. I doubt she would actually go ahead with it. |
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When I saw the thread title, I though one word, electioneering.
But LOL anyway at Merkel. I don't have strong views either way on it other than the concern that some women are forced to wear it and quite frankly this country has freedom of choice but I would expect that those women who are forced to wear it are also being abused in other ways too. |
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I'd agree the full veil is not appropriate anywhere but banning it isn't solving the problem - unless the problem is low poll figures.
Banning something because you don't like it rather than because it causes harm is the sort of thing shitty little regimes come up with not democracies. |
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No I've not seen them working in full burqas, but with veils across their mouths so you can't see their lips moving.
Most workplaces have uniforms of various sorts, and I suspect Asian women have to wear that if they want the job - I never heard of anyone getting let off on religious grounds. Of course the ubiquitous headscarf is allowed, as it doesn't interfere with efficient functioning. The trouble with seeing the burqa as an instrument of oppression is that there's no way of telling if a woman is in fact being oppressed, or if she freely chooses to obey the dictates of her religion. It's really an internal matter for Muslim women. I don't think it's a matter for banning. After all, they can always take it off if they have a change of heart. |
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Banning something because you don't like it rather than because it causes harm is the sort of thing shitty little regimes come up with not democracies. |
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Ironic that it's the Germans, there is only one thing worse than a state banning an item of clothing IMO and that is a state enforcing the wearing of an item of clothing or a symbol.
I have no problem whatsoever with people not being allowed to cover their faces in situations where for security reasons, banks, airports, etc etc etc, it is necessary to see a persons face, but for just walking down the street then it sets all sorts of precedents, what's next the banning of hats, hoodies, beards, scarves, sunglasses, crash helmets? they all obscure the face and can make identification difficult in some circumstances. I wonder what it could be that makes an item of clothing exclusively worn by women, and women of a certain religion, so 'special' that it requires a law just for that one item of clothing? |
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No, I've never seen that.
Most workplaces have uniforms of various sorts, and I suspect Asian women have to wear that if they want the job - I never heard of anyone getting let off on religious grounds. Of course the ubiquitous headscarf is allowed, as it doesn't interfere with efficient functioning. The trouble with seeing the burqa as an instrument of oppression is that there's no way of telling if a woman is in fact being oppressed, or if she freely chooses to obey the dictates of her religion. It's really an internal matter for Muslim women. I don't think it's a matter for banning. After all, they can always take it off if they have a change of heart. What would be the most likely action of such a husband in the majority of cases? Yip, they would never allow the woman to leave the house making her a prisoner in her own home for life, some 'liberation' that would be. and of course the other good point you raise is that there are many Muslim women who want to wear them. |
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I hope we don't go down this route. It's one thing to allow institutions to decide on acceptable dress code, as occured in court of law recently, it's another for the state to legislate more widely what people can and can't wear. Clearly it's electioneering. It's the sort of shoddy electioneering that panders to certain prejudices in our population.
I think if we copy the French and Dutch in this we will have thrown away something that is very precious. That Anglo Saxon attitude that it's no one else's bloody business what someone chooses to wear. |
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Desperate stuff from Merkel.
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Well she's just been confirmed as the CDU's candidate for the election with 89.5%
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What would be the most likely action of such a husband in the majority of cases? Yip, they would never allow the woman to leave the house making her a prisoner in her own home for life, some 'liberation' that would be. . |
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A significantly large number of Muslim women around my neck of the woods wear the whole kit, all you can see is two eyes peering out at you. Black from head to foot.
If this gear didn't already exist anyone suggesting wearing such clothing would be thought an idiot. And rightly so. |
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