Reform UK edges closer to burka ban as Zia Yusuf sets record straight on ‘huge impediment to assimilation’
https://www.gbnews.com/politics/reform-uk-conference-burka-ban
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Reform UK edges closer to burka ban as Zia Yusuf sets record straight on ‘huge impediment to assimilation’
https://www.gbnews.com/politics/reform-uk-conference-burka-ban
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The same people who are pushing the “freedom of speech” narrative are the ones who want to tell people what they can and can’t wear.
Ironically also the same people who are selling illegal T-shirts
>Key Provisions of the Public Order Act 1936
>Prohibition:
>It is an offence to wear a uniform signifying association with a political organisation or the promotion of a political object in a public place or at a public meeting.
My wife is friends with a Muslim lady who wears one, she chooses to wear it but sometimes doesn’t do so and shes told my wife that she prefers to wear it because shes never been sexually harrased while in it but has been when wearing western style clothes.
Edit: I’ll make it a bit clearer, she prefers to wear it to put people off from sexually harrasing her, not that she prefers to wear it in general
For a party of freedom of speech, they sure are restrictive.
Personally, I’m generally not a fan of a government banning an item of clothing as I see it as overreach but I do also see the arguments for it as well.
Happy to be corrected on this but I was under the impression that the burka is a symbol of women oppression and subjugation? I know we’re a multicultural society but it can be seen as a step in the right direction as a way to promote women equality. People may argue differently but please educate me on this as I’m willing to learn.
Also, I’ve now been in a couple of scenarios where a woman has been in a head to toe covering in a group setting where dialogue and interaction was required and it did admittedly make it difficult. I respect the choice to wear it if that’s what she wanted to wear but for the social and networking aspect it made it slightly awkward, and from the outside looking in it does seem a little backward.
There’s this bent in the reactionary right, this notion that rights exist to protect them and restrict others. We’re not allowed to use certain historic terms but I really can’t help but feel there’s a real level of sociopathy underlying it all. Especially when its combined with this like hyper-cynical rhetorical never-quite-saying-what-we-mean bullshit going on all the time as well.
So Reform UK want to dictate to women what they are allowed to wear?
We need to start having honest conversations about Islam and its rising influence in UK culture and politics. Especially in the context of Mothin Ali and Shabana Mahmood political appointments this week.
In the 1950s, there 0.02% of the population identified as Muslim, and that figure has risen exponentially, especially in recent years.
The figure now stands between 6-7% and is projected to reach between 17-20% by the 2050s if the current trajectory of immigration and birthing rates continue.
If we fail to have this conversation now, this may present as an existential threat to the values we take for granted in the future.
So much for “freedom of expression” and then banning religious clothing
Countries where the burqa is banned. Really scary far right countries!
Algeria, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Chad, China, Denmark, France, Gabon, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Turkey and Uzbekistan
+ some areas of Italy and Spain.