The white, male former foreign secretary said the veil was a “visible statement of separation and of difference”, and that he asks women who visit his surgery to remove it. And nuns? Does he demand to see their hair, too? It’s open season on Islam — Muslims are the new Jews. And the idea that Straw’s divisive statement should not only be tolerated but adopted on all sides, as it has been with a kind of bullying relish, troubles me.
All Nuns wear their "uniform" because they choose to. Many Muslim women are forced to wear the veil against their will. Many have been killed for refusing in so called "honour" killings.
Even more astounding Knight revises history and plays the "it's our fault" card.
Especially since July 7, it has become acceptable to say the most ignorant, degrading things about Islam. And then we all sit around wondering why young Muslim men appear to be getting angrier and more politicised, or why “westernised” young Muslim women whose mothers go bare-headed are suddenly, defiantly, opting for the full-on niqab-style veil that leaves only a slit for the eyes.
How ignorant is that? Aren't the 7/7 Muslim male terrorists supposed to have carried out the attack because they were angry and politicized? If degrading things are being said after 7/7, then what made them angry and politicized to the point that they murdered 52 innocent Britons on 7/7 before such things are supposed to have been said?
What facts or proof does Knight offer that "young Muslim women whose mothers go bare-headed are suddenly, defiantly, opting for the full-on niqab-style veil"? None. The Muslim population of Britain is rising due to immigration and birth rates and those Muslims are becoming more radicalized due to Britain's turning a blind eye to preachers of hate like Hamza. As a result more British Muslim women are being forced to wear the veil. They're forced to wear it at the mosque, at school and when they go out in public. They face harrasment and in some extreme cases, murder for refusing.
Knight's ignorance knows no bounds.
I am particularly irked by ancient old “feminists” wheeling out themselves and their 30-years-out-of-date opinions to reiterate the old chestnut that Islam, by its nature, oppresses women (unlike the Bible, eh,?) and that the veil compounds the blanket oppression.
Well, Knight can you point to which Christian country where women are not allowed to drive, vote, have 4 male witnesses that they've been raped, be stoned for adultry and must be accompanied by their husband or a male relative to report spouse abuse as is the case in many Muslim countries?
What a freeking moron.
In their view all Muslim women are crushed because they can’t wear visible lipstick or flash their thongs. Does it occur to these idiots that not necessarily everyone swoons with admiration at the fact that they have won the freedom to dress like 55-year-old slappers?
Does it occur to this idiot that not every western woman dresses like that? Or that women's right to dress as they please was hard fought for?
This is the old burqa versus the bikini con: every Muslim woman who wears a burqa is pure and every western woman who wears a bikini is a whore. What utter ignorant nonsense.
Read the rest of Knights insane rant if you want to but here's an admission from Knight that's relevant to the story.
“I don’t like facts very much, which is a bit of a bummer, really, if you’re a hack,” she says. “It always annoyed me that the facts wouldn’t bend to the much better story that I had in mind.”
That doesn't stop this "hack" from trying though.
I'm amazed that the Times publishes such ignorant tribe that's contains some racism.
UPDATE
Remember Knight had this to say:
"...“westernised” young Muslim women whose mothers go bare-headed are suddenly, defiantly, opting for the full-on niqab-style veil that leaves only a slit for the eyes."
Is this the kind of "opting" Knight is talking about?
One young man denied bullying Muslim women about the way they dressed, saying he "merely explained what will happen to them in the afterlife if they continue to dress inappropriately", she said.
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