No place for the Burqa in the workplace!
The thing about the Conservatives is that they are cowards and I will demonstrate this over the issue of the wearing of the burqa.
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has revealed that she refuses to meet or speak to constituents who cover their faces as she backed allowing bosses to ban female staff from wearing burkas. She said that she had a rule at her surgeries in her North West Essex constituency that 'you have to remove your face covering, whether it's a burka or a balaclava'.
Question - how many people visit her wearing balaclavas? Why seek to pretend that this is about anything other than the wearing of the burqa?
She has backed allowing office managers to bar staff from wearing the traditional Islamic robe for women, which has only a transparent veil allowing them to see.
What about banning customers from wearing it?
Silence and the reason for that becomes clear.
However she stepped back from the idea of a nationwide ban on the garment, saying there were bigger issues when it came to integration.
She is a coward. Like the rest of the milquetoast conservatives, she knows that this Islamic garb is unacceptable in the public realm but she won’t go the extra mile and say it.
This is why those like Reform MP Sarah Pochin who unambiguously call for a total ban on the burqa connect to the broader non Islamic British public!
We want to see it removed from the public square, no ifs or buts.
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It's an abhorrent, repressive shroud of the living dead. It is not a piece of clothing, it's a social prison meant to remove women's rights to the most basic freedom: to be seen and converse with other human beings.
Take this scenario. Imagine that the burqa had never been invented. And in 2025 a group of white men started to demand that their wives be covered from head to foot in a sack, and be robbed of their dignity and individuality. How would that go down within British society?
Yes, it certainly should be banned. The only reason it hasn't is that our politicians are scared stiff of offending Islam,and telling the truth about the many negative aspects that that religion embraces.
God made us in his image. The human face was not meant to be covered. To do so is an abomination. To culturally impose it on women is misogynistic, cruel and depraved. Shame on anyone who excuses such a vile practice.
There’s a lot arrogance behind those veils. Men often aren’t the oppressors forcing their women into them. The women are brainwashed into believing that it is a statement of modesty and are very proud of themselves.
Women not wearing one are upbraided with, “Who are you after? Who are you trying to seduce?”. The women are watching each other jealously as to who is the most “modest”. This is not humility.
You can’t re-educate this mindset. The only answer is deportation.
Of course, by the time you get to my age, the damn things are probably an advantage!