O Sung
...assuming of course that muslim wives aren't right little ravers when the sun goes down and the Burqa comes off.
I wonder what the subscription rate to Victoria's Secret is among the Islamically inclined ladies?

JAY OF MELBOURNE...

What are we to do with you ? Before I 'try' to ever so gently excoriate you for your Un-Burqa like remarks, you'd agree it must be inordinately hot over there in those desert climes ? You'd reckon those poor ladies are very hot, attired from head to toe in these black garments ? The moment they'd arrived home, their first wish is to 'hit the Tub', I would think. Before or after the 'sun goes down' would be immaterial I would imagine ?

Anyway, back to your initial remark...assuming some ladies are; 'right little ravers' I think you put it ? Firstly it must be determined, whether or not 'the sun had come down', or is it a 'twenty four hour' thing and simply irrelevant ? Gees, now you're corrupting my gentle soul !

I'm glad that some humour has been introduced
into this debate. As well as some serious thoughts
have been raised regarding the use of facial and
body coverings. I still feel however that although
we are all entitled to practice whatever religious
and cultural practices we like but it must be done
within our framework of laws and what is found to be
acceptable and not acceptable by the community in this country.

Here ya go, folks...in the name of security...

http://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/court-headscarf-removal-order-an-insult-to-cancer-survivors-dignity/story-fnii5sms-1227083148996

"A CHEMOTHERAPY patient who was forced to remove her headscarf to enter the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court is demanding a formal apology.

Breast cancer survivor Julie Gale says she felt humiliated when a male security guard ­ordered her to take off the scarf in front of dozens of other people filing into court.

“I felt so affronted by it, it was so insensitive and humiliating,” said Ms Gale, a Brighton East comedy writer and women’s health ­advocate.

She was attending court to support her daughter, who had been the victim of a vicious ­assault at Flinders St station.

She said she had put her bag through the security scanner and walked through the metal detector when a security guard pointed her out to his ­colleague, who told her to ­remove the garment.

“He pointed to my head and said: ‘Take if off’. I said to him: ‘What, you want me to take this off? I’ve got a bald head underneath’."

Seems one doesn't have to cover one's face to be humiliated in public.

Shame we've morphed into a paranoid fearful population - at least at the institutional level.

The marvels of modern Australia.

Dear Poirot,

I know what it feels like to be humiliated
by a security guard. It happened to me in
Parliament House in Canberra when I was asked to
take my small fur hat off infront of everyone.
I had gone through chemo and still had bald patches
on my head where the hair hadn't grown back. However,
he explained to me that those were the rules and that
was the end of it. This happened some time ago -
before all this current fuss.
Much as I felt embarrassed - I realised that the man
was only doing his job.

Just a note.

France banned the Burka/Niquab. etc, in 2010. In July, 2014, The European Court of Human Rights, upheld the Ban.

The EC of HR, "Accepted the barrier raised against others by a veil concealing the face in public could undermine the notion of "living together."

All those against the Ban, "Stick that in ya pipe & smoke it."