* Of course the Associated Press has to smear the courageous Geert Wilders as a ‘right wing’ lawmaker, as if the misogynistic black sack was some kind of fashion statement that ‘liberates’ women. But the AP-turd who wrote this simply presents a spitting image of our degenerated society. That Geert Wilders lives in hiding and must fear for his life because of Muhammedan fanatics that invaded his homeland is not mentioned.
A right-wing Dutch lawmaker wants women jailed for wearing the head-to-toe Islamic robe known as a burqa, calling it a “symbol of oppression.”
Geert Wilders, whose Freedom Party has nine lawmakers in the 150-seat lower house of Dutch parliament, filed a proposal Thursday to make wearing a burqa in public a crime punishable by up to 12 days jail.
* It might be a good idea to jail the men who force women into the black sack as well.
“The burqa and niqab are a symbol of oppression of women,” Wilders told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. He said burqas and the niqab — a full-faced veil with only a slit for the eyes — hindered integration of Muslim women into Dutch society and also posed a security risk.
An Islamic community spokesman, Ayhan Tonca, called Wilders’ proposal “totally out of proportion” and accused him of seeking to broaden a rift between Muslims and the rest of Dutch society.
* No, he is noting the rift that already exists, and trying to heal it.
Last November, the Dutch government said it was drawing up legislation to ban burqas, but that administration was defeated in elections the same month. The new centrist coalition of Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende has no plans to implement a burqa ban, meaning Wilders’ proposal has little chance of becoming law.
Few women wear the burqa in the Netherlands, but the debate over whether to outlaw it underscores a drift away from traditional Dutch tolerance and unease with the growing influence of Islam in the country. About 6 percent of the Dutch population of 16 million is Muslim.
The burqa isn’t just a symbol of oppression-it’s a symbol of gross stupidity.
What woman would want to really wear such a thing on a hot and humid day?
Not only that, but it looks ridiculous. The picture tells it all.
I think it is too easy for the men to wear it and try to hide from notice/capture also. I have read more than once that a muslim male was trying to flee while wearing a burka.
I wonder why their perfect god would want to hide everything that it created? Even the eyes to see with, the nose to smell, the ears to hear and the mouth to talk with?! These are some very basic items needed to manuever. Ask someone who doesn’t have one or more of these basic human items how easy it is to manuever.
And this is also why I think that when the politicians say that the muslims are assimilating, I think they are spewing donkey dung. I see tented women here in Oakland, Ca. How many people befriend the tented women!? Or how many of our events do these tented people join us in?
I wrote this sometime in 2005.
The Freedom of the Burqa
Essentially, the public manifestation of the burqa is a tacit acceptance of institutionalised slavery in the West. It is an acknowledgement, that we as a Western society have recognised the institutionalised slavery of women in Islam, as legitimate in the West.
This cannot be accepted in a liberal and socially just society.
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2005_08_01_gatesofvienna_archive.html
I’m convinced they have been body snatched by aliens there is no other explanation for it, That has to be it, get out the Aroguard!
Why else cover your self up? I mean its perfect they can hide their scales… gills and tails!
Yes I am convinced they are aliens, not human that’s for sure!