I ride a motorcycle and have been run out of my lane, by women wearing these GARBAGE BAGS on their heads and I am sick of having to jump curbs to get out of their way.

These women should NOT be allowed to drive motor vehicles because they are a hazard on the road.

They are obviously a security risk too since you cannot even tell if it’s a man or a woman under them.

As awful as the burqa is, banning it will strengthen Islam by turning the issue into one of freedom.

What we should do instead is make the content of the Qur’an better known.

Everyone should know all the repeated passages requiring cutting off a hand and a foot on opposite sides, for example.

I don’t think that people should be able to conceal their identity, it is a security risk.

Not to mention it is a fundamentalist practice to degrade women, the ones that say they choose to wear it are brainwashed like any other fundamentalist.

Belgium’s lower house of parliament voted almost a year ago to ban women from wearing the full Islamic face veil in public.

And the whole civilised world should do the same, and even go further!

Women are being forced to dress in black sacks and put bags over their heads because of men’s weak egos?

C’mon this is 2011!

And not the 6th century!

I downloaded the PDF file mentioned above and was astounded to read:

Objections to being photographed.

There are sharp distinctions in the way state agencies have approached this matter.

Several states allow for a no-photo driver’s license.

Thirteen states allow a no-photo driver’s license option, in deference to customers who have religious objections to being photographed.

These states are: Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Washington, and Wisconsin.

Some of these states have a concentration of Amish and Mennonite Christians who hold the belief that Bible teachings do not allow them to be photographed.

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The above is PC gone mad!

What’s to stop somebody using somebody elses driver’s licence?

The Burqua should be banned in America and in Europe too because of several practical reasons.

The Burqua reduces vision and therefore makes driving difficult, and will likely endanger others.

Identification is difficult or impossible when the face is covered e.g. when going to the bank there is a need to identify oneself with an ID and that is impossible when your face is covered. The same problem occurs when shopping with a credit card etc.

Westerners look each other in the eyes and read facial expressions, and most communication between people is non-verbal and that’s limited if the face is covered.

Lastly, most of the West believes in gender equality and the Burqua is considered gender oppression.

France, which has Europe’s biggest Muslim population officially banned women from wearing full-face veils in public places on Monday (April 11 2011).

French officials estimate that as few as 2,000 women, from a total Muslim population estimated at between four and six million, wear the full-face veils that are traditional in parts of Arabia and South Asia.

On Saturday police said that they arrested fifty nine people, including nineteen veiled women, who turned up for a banned protest in Paris over the ban, while two more were detained as they attempted to travel to the rally from Britain and Belgium”.

Anyone refusing to her veil can now be taken to a police station, where officers will try to persuade them to remove the garment, and can also threaten fines.

A woman who repeatedly insists on appearing veiled in public can be fined 150 euros ($216) and ordered to attend re-education classes.

Additionally, there are much more severe penalties for anyone found guilty of forcing someone else to hide his or her face, “through threats, violence, constraint, abuse of authority or power for reason of their gender”.

The new law is clearly aimed at fathers, husbands and/or religious leaders who force women to wear face-veils, and applicable to offences committed in public or in private, the law imposes a fine of 30,000 euros ($4,300) and a year in jail.

Belgium’s parliament has approved a similar law, but has yet to enforce it, and in the Netherlands, far-right leaders have proposed a ban, whilst in Italy the right-wing Northern League is lobbying for a ban based on the French model.

French police arrested two veiled women Monday morning just hours after a new law banning citizens from donning the burka, or full-face veil, in public.

The women were arrested along with several others while protesting the new law in front of the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris.

Doesn’t the above just say it all?

French government official Frederic Lefebvre recently demanded that any woman breaking the government’s new law which makes the garment illegal should be, “deprived of her rights”, and added, “women who wear the burka in France should be banned from using public transport and receiving state handouts”.

And his comments came one day after the head of president Nicolas Sarkozy’s party said Muslim women wearing full-face veils should not be granted French nationality.

And who could argue with him?

Muslims don’t want to integrate into their host countries, but simply intend to overrun them.

France, which might be the first to go has finally woken up, as have the UK and Germany, but the latter two have so far not put words into action like the French.

Let’s see what happens.

There are cases that Muslims, sometimes blaming them as a tourist because of their attire look. All parts of their are covered and we cannot judge whether they are truly Muslims or not. But that’s the way they wear clothes. And we cannot change that tradition. Just give them respect whenever they will around in the country.

I think that’s just bigotry.

Religion should not be a tool for discrimination; our laws should treat all people with the same respect. In this regard we will not be in conflict with anybody.