Let be clear, what is it we are trying to ban. There are many types of Islamic dress for women not all of the as encompassing as the Burka. The Burka grabs the headlines as it the one which covers the most and adds a air of mystery and unknown. And people fear the unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Are we looking to ban the burka because it is a symbol of a religion or because it is a symbol of the oppression of women?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n If a woman chooses to wear Islamic dress and that is her own personal choice, then how is that oppression?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n The\n state should not interfere in such matters and history has shown that \nonce laws are introduced to target religions or aspects of those \nreligions it can have severe consequences and be misused by those in \npower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Look what happened in France, where police \nenforcing local laws forced a woman to remove her Burqini in public on \nthe beach. Based on the photos I saw this caused her distress. How can \nthis be right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n We had another example in France where a\n girl was sent home for wearing a long skirt\u00a0 which was considered\u00a0 \nsymbol of religion by her teachers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The\u00a0 Quran itself \nis not prescriptive on what to wear for women (except for righteousness \nand modesty to be followed) and most of what are perceived to be Islamic\n rules regarding\u00a0 women dress have been a result of interpretation of \nHadith (the sayings of the Holy Prophet, Peace and Blessing be upon him)<\/p>\n\n\n\n There\n are various interpretations on wearing the burka amongst the scholars \nof Islam on how much of the face should be covered and they are just \nthat; a person\u2019s interpretation. Ultimately the person making the choice\n should be aware of the facts\/regulations\/guidance themselves and make \nup their own mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I fear that if we ban the burka and \nother religious symbols we run the risk of creating a divide and driving\n our young people into the arms of religious extremists whose main \nmessage is that \u201ccome join us, you are one of us, not those who seek to \ndiscriminate against you\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once laws are introduced, \nespecially those not thought through properly or with a scope open to \nwide interpretation they are open to misuse. Close to home we have the \nuse of anti-terrorism laws to check if children live within a school \ncatchment area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My late mother\u00a0who worked extremely \nhard all her life,\u00a0used to say,\u00a0the Islamic guidelines on Hijab is not a\n disgrace or a hindrance for a woman in any way. On the contrary, it \nhonours her and frees her from the obstacles that prevent her moral and \nspiritual advancement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For me I see the Muslim dress as\n a step on the road to equality as it frees us to focus on what a person\n says and does as opposed to what they look like.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not \nonly is a religious clothing ban likely to violate our fundamental right\n of choice it can also prevent those affected from moving comfortably in\n Western society\u00a0 and bringing us all closer together<\/p>\n\n\n\n Remember the real barriers to integration are unemployment and poverty NOT clothing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let be clear, what is it we are trying to ban. There are many types of Islamic dress for women not all of the as encompassing as the Burka. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hanifkhan.co.uk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/23_News1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanifkhan.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanifkhan.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanifkhan.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanifkhan.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanifkhan.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hanifkhan.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/hanifkhan.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanifkhan.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanifkhan.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanifkhan.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanifkhan.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}