Hello
The British Government has fallen into a trap of its own devising.
Let us take this burkha-wearing in Britain to British women who have to comply with dress codes when we go abroad, such as shawls to cover the arms and long skirts and scarves to cover our hair in middle-eastern countries.
When we come back to our own country, Britain, we breathe a sigh of relief and go back to our freedom of dressing.
These burkha-wearing women have fled war in their own country and come here. For some reason, the British government has, for many years, been very weak and allowed female incomers to wear burkhas.
“Let them be covered up in public. “
It is in direct opposition to our dress code, which, we as women have fought for, ever since Emily Pankhurst won us the vote.
As I have been reminded again today, the letter-box look coined by Boris Johnson is just that, a slit of face visible. And the all-over look that frightens adults and children is not the face of western style.
The consequence of this weakness is that all sorts of people have declared that ‘x’ is a nod towards their religion, culture, etc., until eventually, we have lost our national identity. Consecutive governments of whatever hue have begged incomers to accept houses and welfare benefits, thus pushing embedded British deserving claimants down the state accommodation lists.
And British men, in general, are bemused by these women, in whom they would have no interest anyway. One friend said it was an insult to his character, to suggest the women should be covered up, as if he would ever demonstrate an interest.
The French, who have a highly-developed sense of national identity, have rejected the burkha as part of it. And maybe, that’s the crux of it. We have so little sense of identity that we take in these women, who bite the hand that feeds them. Then they demand to wear these ugly garments.
Emily Pankhurst anyone? She would be rolling in her grave if she knew, for all the fight that she put in, so that British women could vote and here is the burkha brigade, taking us a huge step backwards in our rights and demanding the right to wear it. They can have no demands; they can have no rights in our country.
Boris Johnson is demonstrating his right to free speech in this democracy. The hardest thing that anyone can accept, is that other people’s views count and if more people vote against you than for you, you lose.
This burkha action is more to do with spite and racial hatred of the host country and any British religious order would do well to keep out of this argument. Scottish Conservative Leader Ruth Davidson’s comment, actually comparing holy objects in Christianity to Islam, stirs extremism rather than calms. She manages to insult everyone.
Also, sorry to be cynical, but the women writing to Brandon Lewis, Conservative Party Chairman have no family names. Is that because they are one big family? If you think about it, no family name is another breach of our national identity.
Let us join France, Denmark and Belgium in their determination to ban the burkha in public and to keep their national identity intact.
What is our national identity as far as you are concerned?
Have a good week,
LucyLou
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