Wednesday, May 12, 2010

ban the burka?

i've watched with interest the growing movement in parts of europe to ban the wearing of the burka and the comments by corey bernardi of the liberal party that he considers them to be 'unaustralian' (what does that actually mean?) and wants them banned in australia. tony abbott stated that he finds the burka 'confronting' and would prefer it wasn't widely worn. personally i have no more problem with a muslim wearing the burka than i do with a priest wearing the dog collar, a jew wearing the yarmulke or a buddhist wearing their robes. in fact, as one astute commentator pointed out, there are some much more offensive items of clothing regularly seen in australia. i certainly know which of the below pictures i find least confronting!!

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