Even I'm offended and I'm a man!
"Australian bill requires lifting of veils" by Associated Press / July 11, 2011
CANBERRA, Australia - Muslim women would have to remove veils and show their faces to police on request or risk a prison sentence under proposed new laws in Australia’s most populous state that have drawn criticism as culturally insensitive.
Yeah, THOSE MUSLIM WOMEN under those garbs are RESPONSIBLE for ALL YOUR PROBLEMS -- when your military isn't obliterating them, their families, and their villages in Afghanistan.
Yes, NEVER YOU MIND the THIEVING, DEBT-ENSLAVING BANKERS that RUINED YOUR ECONOMY for their OWN GREED!
A vigorous debate that the proposal has triggered reflects the cultural clashes being ignited by the growing influx of Muslim immigrants and the unease that visible symbols of Islam have caused in predominantly white Christian Australia since 1973, when the government relaxed its immigration policy....
No one seems to make a big deal when a Menorah is put up.
As for the Christian-Muslim thing, I don't see it -- although it does serve a certain sliver of a certain group to have us fighting each other of false impressions and lies.
The bill - to be voted on by the state Parliament in August - has been condemned by civil libertarians and many Muslims as an overreaction to a traffic offense case involving a Muslim woman driver in a “niqab,’’ a veil that reveals only the eyes.
Well, at least you know she is not in Saudi Arabia!
And LEAVE IT TO the POLITICIANS to PILE ON in OVERREACTION!
The government says the law would require motorists and criminal suspects to remove any head coverings so police can identify them. Critics say the bill smacks of anti-Muslim bias given how few women in Australia wear burqas. In a population of 23 million, about 400,000 are Muslim.
With less than 5% if that piddling amount actually wear the veil.
--more--"
Yeah, yeah, I wanna look under there to for different reasons.
I profusely apologize to all my Muslim readers who may be offended by my curiosity.
