Burqha Ban

Banning the wearing of the burka in public places is justified as the adoption of this head and face cover is clearly a symbolic gesture of political Islam.This dress is not even worn in many middle eastern countries and is a symbol and statement of outright hostility to western values of freedom liberty and self autonomy.

The liberal left are as usual inconsistent and dishonest in their support of women's right to wear the burka and their position is the height of double standards and hypocrisy.Whilst they would not tolerate for one second even the verbal expression of misogynist views or chauvinistic comments,let alone the outright opression and suppression of women if these were coming from white right wing hidebound groups they willingly accept and support the same attitudes and behaviour from muslim ones.

If it is correct to ban the burka as people concealing their identities and faces in public arouse natural suspicion in the light of all the terrorist atrocities caused by muslims the question arises would it not also be legitimate to ban mosques?The Freedom Party has not got a definitive position on this at present and it invites those in favour of liberty and individual rights to weigh in on this but it does seem a compelling argument for the following reason.Mosques are obvious symbols of Islam which is a political as well as religious construct.Many atrocities and terrorist outrages have their intellectual if not physical provenance in British mosques as the inmams give intellectual birth sustenance and succor to such ideas,justifying jihad etc and giving it their moral and religious imprimatur.For this reason mosques have become recruiting grounds for jihad and operate as command and control centres of terrorism.

The fact that a religion is centuries old does not give it immunity to scrutiny,criticism and condemnation if its actions warrant it as Islam at least in its recent and present form clearly does.

This is not necessarily an exclusive Islamicentric argument,for if christians or jews were blowing themselves up and threatening to impose their religion globally via the sword or bomb the banning of churches and synagogues would be equally justified and apropriate but this is not the case and the threat is coming soley from Islam not those other religions.