Yellow
2018-08-06 14:39:40 UTC
I find women wearing burkas a difficult subject because while I respect
the argument that people should to a greater or lesser degree be allowed
to wear what they wish, I find it heart breaking that there are women
who feel this is how they need to dress.
Anyway, Boris has said this -
"If you say that it is weird and bullying to expect women to cover their
faces, then I totally agree - and I would add that I can find no
scriptural authority for the practice in the Koran.
I would go further and say that it is absolutely ridiculous that people
should choose to go around looking like letter boxes."
There are various people claiming that he is "pandering to the far
right" but that cannot be correct because I am a liberal and as a
liberal I do not think it is right to see a man in shorts and a tee-
shirt while his wife is covered from head to foot in black.
Others claim he is "promoting Islamophobia" but surely the burka itself
is what is doing the promoting, not calls for it to be banished.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45083275
the argument that people should to a greater or lesser degree be allowed
to wear what they wish, I find it heart breaking that there are women
who feel this is how they need to dress.
Anyway, Boris has said this -
"If you say that it is weird and bullying to expect women to cover their
faces, then I totally agree - and I would add that I can find no
scriptural authority for the practice in the Koran.
I would go further and say that it is absolutely ridiculous that people
should choose to go around looking like letter boxes."
There are various people claiming that he is "pandering to the far
right" but that cannot be correct because I am a liberal and as a
liberal I do not think it is right to see a man in shorts and a tee-
shirt while his wife is covered from head to foot in black.
Others claim he is "promoting Islamophobia" but surely the burka itself
is what is doing the promoting, not calls for it to be banished.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45083275