Thursday, January 25, 2007

Veil of intolerance?

If a father insists that his 12 year old daughter wear the full niqab, why doesn't she attend an Islamic school rather than a selective girls grammar school in Buckinghamshire?

Does his daughter want to wear the niqab?

Update: Pub Philosopher points out that the father can threaten the school with £50,000 of taxpayer funded legal aid whilst it could cost council taxpayers £500,000 to defend the case!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

you'd rather she attends an islamic school further isolating muslims from the general community and reducing pressure to integrate?

Snafu said...

Anonymous, how is her father's insistance that she wears a niqab promoting tolerance and integration?

Your question suggests that it is the general communities fault that muslims are isolated from society. News items such as this suggest that for some extreme Muslims, they will 'integrate' with wider society but always on their terms.

If I visted a mosque, I would remove my shoes before entering it out of respect. I would not threaten legal action and insist that my human rights were being infringed if forced to remove them.

Anonymous said...

Wow, this site is amazing, why the hell are you not standing for election, I'd vote for you!
I can see so many people classifying some of the things said on here as racist but that is complete bull, you are making total sense without in any way offering offence to any ethnic groups as far as I can tell!
I applaud you Snafu!
On topic, Islamic Schools?
Are we an Islamic nation?
No?
So why are we paying our taxes for it to go towards segregating children and teaching them out of date values?
What next?
Will we have state supported underage wedding ceremonies?
State supported ceremonial beheadings?
Religious articles should be removed from schools, ALL religious articles, religion held education back so long we cannot let it do so any longer!

Clive Hutchings said...

I agree with Jason Furness - this site is what we need and the views of the person who created this blogsite should have a party to put these views to the people
Also anonymous the muslims are the ones creating their OWN segregation by EXPECTING us to change OUR country to accomodate tehm when THEIR home country wouldnt accept OUR demands.
They want to live here? - then abide by OUR rules and live within OUR culture and become part of OUR society - dont try to make our country the same as the place where they didnt want to live which is why they came here in the first place!!!!!