Backs Boris on burka
IT’S not often that I empathise with Boris Johnson, however I must do so in this case.
As a woman who escaped an Islamic upbringing, I will state categorically that my stomach turns whenever I see ‘moving black tents’.
Let me be candid. Women did not invent a belief system that makes them secondclass citizens by any standards that well meaning liberal apologists for Islam apply to other areas. It was a man who invented Islam just as it was men who invented Judaism and Christianity.
Islam permits and in some cases advocates polygamy, temporary marriages, concubinage, wife beating, child marriage, reduced inheritance rights for women, and states that a woman’s testimony in court is worth half of that of a man’s.
In my view the term Islamophobic is a contradiction in terms.
A phobia is an unreasonable fear. It is not unreasonable to fear a belief system that maintains gender apartheid in the 21st century. Permitting it, validates gender apartheid. IT is heartening and more than a little interesting that the respected Imam Taj Harvey of the Oxford Islamic Congregation has leapt to the defence of embattled Boris Johnson.
Which begs the question as to just what the liberal, PC nincompoops leading the calls for Mr Johnson to be expelled from the Tory Party are getting their knickers in a twist about.
As far as I am concerned Boris’s comments regarding the burka were, if anything, extremely restrained. I for one, find it not just out-of-place in a modern, civilised society but threatening. LORD Sheikh founder of the Conservative Muslim Forum demonstrates his foolishness with his absurd comment that Boris Johnson’s views on the burka are “in a way racist” – either they are racist or they are not, there really isn’t a category of “to a certain extent” or “nearly”.
For many people the burka does look like a letter box, that’s just an observation and the “I’m deeply offended brigade” need to grow up and lighten up. Why all the fuss about the comments Boris Johnson has made about the burka. He is absolutely right to question this especially in the current climate of terrorist threats. He should not be made to apologise. This form of extreme Islamic dress should be banned here the same as it is in France. Oh how we love Boris, where is the Muslims’ sense of humour? For years democracy has been stilted. As for wearing the burka etc France and Denmark have banned them and if Cameron had done it, we wouldn’t have had this outcry. There is no rule which says the burka should be worn. I AM fed up every time someone criticises a black person or a Muslim or someone who is not white or Christian, there is a pathetic outcry of racism. Boris was trying in his stupid way to make a joke about her head wear. He was rude but certainly not racist.
Lighten up people and stop creating issues where there are none. I CAN’T believe all the hot air spouted about Boris saying women in burkas and veils look like letters boxes. When nuns here wore long clothes and head coverings it was a standing joke that they looked like penguins. People who come to live in this country need to realise this is the British way.
When I was young the response would have been, sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me. In other words toughen up.
If Boris is thrown out of the Conservative Party a lot of votes will go with him.
Things are getting so bad now I think the snowflakes are starting to melt. I HAVE spent a pleasant time hosting guests and visitors to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s annual convention in Hampshire. As I drove visitors across the site and showed them the facilities run and organised by women to cater for the 15,000 female guests a thought struck me.
From my golf-buggy I could point out female lawyers, teachers, doctors, surgeons, PhD’s, housewives, students, nurses, CEO’s, project managers…. There was no end to the talents available.
These women belong to a community that advocates the wearing of the veil. Many of them will wear a niqab and nobody has bullied them into doing so. They are all intelligent, educated, confident women. When is a racist not a racist? Answer, when they are Boris Johnson. The media has gone into overdrive to downplay Johnson’s racist comments, where he demonised Muslim women based on their religious affiliation. Instead of analysing claims of Islamophobia within the Tory Party, as they have with Corbyn and the anti-Semitism saga, Johnson’s remarks are being downplayed.