MayMay, "I know many Muslim women, and I bet not ONE of them would refuse to temporarily remove headgear in order to aid identification at a security checkpoint"

Why should a school for example be burdened with the cost of security checkpoints on all gates, with a private booth and a women appropriately culturally sensitive one would imagine, to do the viewing? Logistically, how is she then to communicate the identity to school administration and teachers?

Even if they were funded to do that, which is unlikely, there remains the problem of monitoring people while on the school grounds. Full face is the minimum and not nearly enough to easily exclude (or include) where a child is missing.

Should be 'woman' not women. I am often doing a couple of things at once, sorry.

o sung wu,

You are needed on the poetry thread :)

MAY MAY...

You have my profound apologies ! That's the trouble when my old aural senses are listening intently to every word and sentence that originates from those three intellectual giants of Sydney's 'Talk Back Radio', Messrs A. JONES, R. HADLEY and the inimitable A. BOLT ! The general thrust of their conversations described in somewhat graphic detail how just about every Bill, is returned to the Reps, for considerable modification and alteration ?

Onthebeach, my comments were not in response to anything you wrote.

Regarding what you wrote, are you not aware that hardly any Muslim women in Australia wear the burqa? It's a "close" to unknown phenomenon? Trust me, burqa clad women are NOT invading Australian schools to commit evil crimes and steal children like you suggest, therefore your "security checkpoints on all school gates" is ludicrous in the extreme ---- straight out of the Andrew Bolt Bible.

The last 2 posts from onthebeach are a good example of how the right wing media in Australia has brainwashed a small minority of Aussies into anti Muslim paranoia. It's very sad indeed that this minority are so gullible that they willingly believe and worship their Holy Trinity, God the Farter Alan Jones, His illegitimate Son Andrew Bolt and the Ghostly Daily Telegraph.

Yvonne,

"....Likewise, women who have grown up socialized that showing the face is immodest would find it confronting to show their face."

This would, presumably, not apply to people born in Australia as for any others, one wonders why they came to Australia.
Women who go to Saudi Arabia wear a headscarf at all times when in public as that is the custom in that country.
Why would women who come to Australia not follow our custom of shewing our faces?