General Chat

Rose, I agree.... I know from someone I was having treatment with... she had a baseball cap pulled right down over her head, and was asked to leave the shop because she refused to remove it... she was furious, but did exactly what I would have done... pulled it off whilst making a very very loud fuss, and attracting lots of attention.... guess who was more embarrassed? lol Not her, I can tell you.... I went proudly bald!! But she didn't want to... her head got cold.

I have to deal with the discomfort I feel when with someone whose face is covered for a clearly non-medical reason.... I find myself averting my eyes, and speaking to the ground... that is my problem, I know.

Love

Daff xxxx

I hope never to live in a country where the government dictates what women can and can't wear.

I do feel a bit uncomfortable around women wearing the niqab or the burqa but that's my problem.

I feel less uncomfortable around them than a crowd of drunken men wearing football shirts.

Gwynne

As we, the British, have been priding ourselves on our tolerance since the late 17th century, we would look pretty stupid if we banned the burka.

I don't feel uncomfortable around people whose faces, in particular mouths and most of their eyes are covered. I just can't communicate with them When you have a hearing problem, despite wearing aids, you need to be able to 'read' the face to understand what people are saying. I had the same problem when Spanish security were all wearing masks because of swine flu. Therefore if I am served in a shop by a girl whose face is covered I keep my head down in case she tries to speak to me when I know I will neither hear nor understand her.

I think i would like to see the Burkha banned , Especially those wearing it
whilst driving , dangerous in my opinion , Common sense should tell anyone NOT to obscure their vision whilst driving ,
We have thousands of Burkha wearers here in Liverpool , which doesn't bother me in the slightest BUT when i engage in a conversation i like eye contact , I also feel " strange " when talking to anyone wearing sun glasses , i need to see their eyes lol.

I heard a Muslim cleric state this morning that there is no religious statement that requires woman to wear a burka. It appears to be a tradition from centuries past and could certainly be dropped without contravening any dictat.

To be honest I don't feel comfortable around, for me, strange garments, well not in the UK. Perhaps I am just less tolerent than others.

Sue x

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for me it really is treat everyone the same.a lady where i come from years ago had a little moped .she was in the sally army.and got done for wearing a hat instead of a crash hat.yet some were allowed turbans .
what was funnier was it was my mates mum .she cringed everytime it went in the local paper.lol

Karen, I have a problem with people wearing dark sunglasses too.

I feel they should be banned - you do not know who is wearing them, it could be anyone.
Did anyone read in today's paper about a blind person and guide dog being turned off of a bus, the driver was Muslim and they consider dogs unclean
Liz

it's to do with their culture as to why they wear them & i respect that........like it's to do with my OH's culture not to eat pork & i respect that too

My 15 yrs old neice returned to Saudi last week , she was itching to get off the plane wearing shorts , Did she ................ what do you think lol
Respect !!

Liz ..
I'm glad i wasn't on that bus , i would have created havoc , i'm blazing just reading it . That bloody driver wants to be grateful he has eyes to see with ,

I went into Tes*o the other day , i had my hood up as it was pouring with rain , no sooner had i set foot in the enterance when i was asked by security to remove my hood , I did , as i wouldn't walk around a shop or inside anywhere with my hood up ,

Karen x

If your niece was returning there, then surely she knew about wearing shorts...so i don't see the problem

It is customary to show your face in Britain, therefore they should conform, and the burka be banned - although on the news tonight it is not likely to be banned
Liz

Its customary to eat Pork in Britain......so should my OH conform

Julie .
Yes she's lived there most of her life but after visiting here ,
she said she would have loved to arrive in Saudi wearing her shorts ,
But it was a no no , i said in my posting she was " itching to wear her shorts "

Karen

bring it on I say - the wearing of the veil is one of choice not a religious rule - the fact that a person chooses to wear a veil indicates they are not ever going to integrate intoi our society - they choose to live here - then "when in Rome etc" I would not mess with another country's traditions and rules but we let anyone get away with whatever they want - we are a pushover

my son is a train driver and quite recently on Temple Meads station he saw a ticket collecter refuse to allow a woman through the barrier with a travel card because she was wearing a veil which she would not remove for him to check her ID - a policewoman walked up and pulled the veil off revealing that the woman was in fact not the card holder!! The woman was also racially abusive to the ticket collector.

Much to my son's delight she was carted off after being charged with fraudulent travel, racial abuse and handed to immigration to see if she legally in this country

Ah.....Ok with you now Karen

i think there's a little bit of a difference between a pork sarnie & covering your face

I can think of no logical reason to ban the burka.


An interesting article here -

http://www.q-news.com/media-DailyMail-Burka.htm

But i was saying it with refs to someone culture.....but when we can't even respect someone elses comment then there no hope.....so i will leave this thread