poirot: Parliament has just decided to segregate people of a certain religion if they visit Parliament - even though they been cleared to enter by security.

No, these people have segregated themselves. There are Rules & if they don't wish to follow the Rules, Tough Titties.

Do you think I would be allowed to walk into Parliament nude. Would you claim Parliament is segregating me just because I wish to dress comfortably in the Canberran Summer. Get real.

"However when positive ID is required, or a question of road safety as in driving a Motor Vehicle, then common sense should prevail. In Banks, Airport Controls, whenever a positive ID is required by police or any other authorised officer. It really should be a simple matter...................Well o sung wu this is why we have these disruptions in what's seemly a committee visions of currant events which brings about the very need to feel soft about state/countries welfare and its peoples combine interests.

The world as one has started here in AUSTRALIA....lets continue.

Tally

Jayb,

If it wasn't against the rules...I'd call you an idiot.

It's illegal to walk around nude in public.

It's not illegal to wear a nikab in public - yet....

I am from the generation that grew their hair long in the 1960’s.
It was an affront to everybody outside of my generation. It was seen as a provocative statement of social revolution to owners of the Edwardian cuts gracing the generation before mine. Just to have shoulder length hair would exclude you from visiting friend’s houses, eating in restaurants, entering licensed and social clubs.

It would have adults that have known you all their lives re evaluate their opinion of who you are what you think and what menace you may be capable of.....after a while half the generation had long hair and that minimised the supposed “statement” if any that wearing your hair long initially conveyed....then it went back to being judged on your actions rather than the way you groom or attire.

I feel the same way in principal about the Moslem coverings...but not in practice. Every time I see a garment covering the lot I am affronted by the presence of an Islam with a “join us or perish” agenda. There are mosques in Christian nations but no churches in Muslim nations............the agenda is there.

So what about the Chinese people who wear surgical masks or those paper dust masks all the time? I often see Chinese women (and some men) walking about wearing a big floppy sun hat, sunglasses and a surgical mask, is this "confronting"?.

Jayb. You're worse than Hitler! Old Goebbels wrote a great article about people like you, it's called "More morality, less moralism!" and in it he takes to task the prudes and wowsers who want to tell women what to wear and how to behave.
http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/goeb60.htm

You obviously don't live near many Muslims, I see Lebanese women out power walking with their hijab on, a loose shirt which comes down below the derriere and yoga pants, they do most of the things other women do, they go to Fernwood or Curves to exercise in privacy, just like a lot of other women. They socialise,go for coffee during the day, take the littlies to the park, go to the movies, hang around at the shopping centre, there's nothing about them which says "oppressed".
And surprise! I'm told they also take off the outer wear when they get home and slob around in their t-shirts and tracky dacks like the rest of us!
There's a lot wrong with multiculturalism but the way people dress is such a minor issue it's not even worth thinking about.

Poirot - "You people do realise that our Parliament has just decided to segregate people of a certain religion if they visit Parliament - even though they been cleared to enter by security."

Is Parliament segregating against a religion or attire? Assuming you are not Muslim, if you wore a burqa to Parliament you would be subject to the same rules. So Parliament is against a garment, not the religion.

The hijab and burqa are not an Islamic requirement; they are both Arabic cultural dress (dating back a very long time) that happen to be the style of choice by people of a certain religion. Unfortunately for the Arab women in those countries, and the ones who have moved to the West, their culture dictates their dress code, not their religion... they don't really have a choice.