In Your Face: French attempts to outlaw the burqa strike a blow for the rights of women.

Ah, but the particular and special demand to consider the veil and the burqa as an exemption applies only to women. And it also applies only to religious practice (and, unless we foolishly pretend otherwise, only to one religious practice). This at once tells you all you need to know: Society is being asked to abandon an immemorial tradition of equality and openness in order to gratify one faith, one faith that has a very questionable record in respect of females.

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Burkas should be banned as 'unAustralian', senator claims

Cory Bernardi, a Liberal from South Australia, complained that the full Islamic veil was a "repressive domination of men over women" and established "different sets and expectations in society".
Writing on his blog following an armed robbery in Sydney by a man wearing a burka and sunglasses, he said: "It is un-Australian - and it's symbolic barrier is far greater than the measure of cloth it is created from. For safety and for society, the burka needs to be banned."

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The word 'unAustralian' makes my skin crawl. I agree that the burka should be banned. I'm not allowed to walk into a service station or bank with a full face helmet on for security reasons. I would not talk to a person with dark/mirrored glasses on. It's just rude.

For balance, the good things about the burka:
. they hide the bruises and missing teeth
. cross dressing is easy so Muslim men can take their underage bum boys bitches out to lunch
. with all that mystery, Muslim men can dream that they're not married to a skin-headed pit-bull with a bull's nose ring

Bikinis-for-Burquas: swapping favors with EuroMuslims

Extremist Muslims in Europe demand that their creed be accepted and accommodated -- they want "freedom" to observe their customs via mosques, minarets, halal food, burquas, veils, sharia law, and charming rituals like public stoning, honor killings, and exhortations for global jihad.

Do Extremist Muslims realize how hugely hypocritical their requests are? In Saudi Arabia - birthplace & centre of Islam - there are stringent restrictions on all other faiths.

Perhaps Muslims need help understanding how two-faced they appear? To assist them, I've compiled a few proposals that enable Saudi Arabia and Europe to enjoy equal levels of religious tolerance.

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Sometimes you have to turn something up-side-down to see what it is.