Jayb, a simple demonstration of the use of an amplified and phase-reversed signal to damp intrusive signals in the rhetorical space, creating a noise-free and sematically-empty environment for discourse and reducing information lost as mechanically generated heat.

Or in other words, the art of dealing with fools who won't shut up their catcalling and making rude comments about other people in the audience who are too polite or too shy to speak for themselves by showing them how it should be done.

Isn't it nice and quiet in here now? Who knows, we might even be able to hear ourselves think?

Cohenite, are you aware of any examples of women wearing burqas committing serious crimes in Australia or evidence that inappropriate use of burqas by men as a disguise is more problematic than the use of balaclavas or bike helmets or the bikie's bandanna?

If not, then we're back to silly racist scaremongering and fingerpointing and that's just a waste of time and effort.

I take it by your comment Anti that you approve of the burqa.

It is a misguided viewpoint for reasons I have already mentioned, which are:

1 It ignores the lack of right of Muslim women in Muslim countries NOT to wear the burqa.

2 More importantly it compromises the very nature of a free and open society where citizens are entitled to interact with other people with as much information about those people as possible. You cannot interact with people who are covered from head to foot.

3 Equally importantly the burqa is not an expression of freedom but enslavement. No-one in their right mind would think that the burqa liberates women. It traduces their freedom and reduces them to chattels.

4 Symbolically the burqa represents the move within Islam for ascendency over the secular Western structure. Symbols are important and behaviour, attitudes and legal prescriptions often follow. We see this already happening with segregation occurring in many public spaces to accommodate the burqa.

I agree with you about a waste of time but it is you who is wasting it; your persistent defaults to the hackneyed slogans of racism is both wrong and tedious.

cohenite,

"I had a yarn with a woman today who noted the only possible reason for wearing a burqa was to resist the elements when living the desert.

There is no such reason for wearing one in a modern Western society."

Why do men wear ties with Western dress?

There is apparently no reason that I can see for the wearing of a tie.

Just curious?

Poirot, say something sensible.

Can you still interact with a man wearing a tie? Does the tie symbolise an oppressive cult which not only represses women but non-Muslims and a host of other minorities? Do men with ties actively seek to replace secular Western society with a fanatical religion?

Why pick on ties? What have ever done to you? What about what Muslim men wear?

Are you one of these feminists who so despises the Western patriarch that they cannot see the infinitely worse patriarch waiting to replace the now essentially emasculated Western male.

Maybe that's what you really want; a strong father figure to control your life. Too bad if you don't because largely due to the political correctness fostered on the West by the progressives including a dominant MIA performance by Western feminists in not having the guts to take on Islam, that is what you are going to get.

My point, cohenite, was that you were trumpeting that "there's no reason for women to wear a burqa, etc, etc....not living in the desert and all that....

The same can be said for wearing a tie - no particular use.

It's a cultural ornament.