Suicidal Brits Concede to Face Veils
September 13, 2013
The Birmingham Mail
THE Birmingham Metropolitan College in England yesterday lifted its ban on the niqab, the full Islamic face veil, after a student petition collected 8,000 signatures opposed to the restriction and a protest was planned. Here from The Birmingham Mail is the statement by the college, a tour de force of dhimmi public relations:
We are concerned that recent media attention is detracting from our core mission of providing high quality learning. As a consequence, we will modify our policies to allow individuals to wear specific items of personal clothing to reflect their cultural values.
The college will still need to be able to confirm an individual’s identity in order to maintain safeguarding and security.
We have listened to the views of our students and we are confident that this modification to our policies will meet the needs of all of our learners and stakeholders.”
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Jane S. writes:
I live in a Midwestern university town, where there are several hundred Arab students. There are women in burkas all over campus. I worked for a while in the registrar’s office. They were never asked to show their faces when required to present their student ID. This in spite of University policy that the student ID alone isn’t enough; they have to be able to ascertain that it’s really you.
As far as I know, the issue has never been up for discussion. No one has ever raised the question of why there should be several hundred students from Saudi, as opposed to places like Finland or Italy, where there are only one or two. I have never heard a squeak of protest about the burkas.
You never see the burka’d ones at restaurants, parks, concerts, community events. Their favorite hangout? WalMart. You can always count on bumping into them there. That’s what foreigners love about us. Not our freedom, our tolerance, our way of life. It’s the STORES.
None of this will alter the Midwest’s reputation for being the land of narrow-minded bigots and xenophobes. Not the least little bit. That’s the irony.
