Thursday, 2 July 2009

A country of bottle merchants...

...or as Homer Simpson said "cheese eating surrender monkeys" may well be discovering their spines and their pride, as well as honouring their national motto...Al Qaeda terrorists have vowed to 'wreak dreadful revenge' on France over its plans to ban the burkha. The chilling warning comes after President Nicolas Sarkozy said the Islamic garment which covers the head and body 'debases women' and is not welcome in his country. French MPs have set up a commission to decide if it should be made illegal for women to hide their faces in public. Now leaders of Al Qaeda's North African network have called on French Muslims to react 'with the utmost hostility'.
One Islamic extremist website carried the message: 'We will seek dreadful revenge on France by all means at our disposal, for the honour of our daughters...
more here...

2 comments:

Carbon Con said...

About three years ago I was on the dole long enough to have to attend weekly meetings at my job network member with other people in the same situation. One young lady would attend wearing a full body black burqa only revealing her hands and a slit for her eyes. Because we have this "anti-discrimination"/"multiculturalism" thing in Australia no one could legally say or do anything. She was fit, capable and spoke English with an Aussie accent. So, she could work but it was apparent she had no intention of doing so cause who would hire someone dressed like that?

If you want rort the dole by staying on it the burqa is the perfect cover! Heh heh.

Ayrdale said...

The only solution is either to outlaw it, or for the rest of us to wear it in such numbers that it annoys Mr Plod. (And a bank robbery or several with burqa disguises might hurry things along a little bit too.)