A sad day for Australia – An online poll with 12,458 votes has 84% in favour of banning the wearing of the\u00a0burqa in Australia.\u00a0 This follows\u00a0comment by an Australian senator:<\/p>\n
Outspoken senator Cory Bernardi has called for the banning of the Islamic covering after an armed robbery in a Sydney by a man wearing a burqa and sunglasses.<\/p>\n
The head-to-toe covering was emerging as the preferred disguise of bandits and \u201cn’er do wells”, the South Australian senator wrote on his blog, adding it also prevented Muslim women from interacting in normal day-to-day life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
See article Controversial call to ban the wearing of burqas in public<\/a>.<\/p>\n
The new argument is that robbers can dress with burqas for disguise and therefore\u00a0burqas should not be worn in public. \u00a0Should we then ban overcoats and big hats and ponchos and . . . ?\u00a0 I think not. Australia must continue to allow the wearing of the burqa in public.<\/p>\n
My opposition to the banning of the wearing of burqas is at\u00a0Belgium burqa ban is Bad<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A sad day for Australia – An online poll with 12,458 votes has 84% in favour of banning the wearing of the\u00a0burqa in Australia.\u00a0 This follows\u00a0comment by an Australian senator: Outspoken senator Cory Bernardi has called for the banning of … Continue reading