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Muslim women are pictured at the Whitechapel market in east London. Former foreign minister Jack Straw has defended his call for Muslim women to remove their veils despite a storm of protests — and went further, saying he would like veils not to be worn at all.

AFP: Britain’s race chief warns of violence over veil row

The row in Britain over Muslim women wearing the veil could trigger riots and worse, the country’s race relations watchdog chief warned.

Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, said the divisions exposed in the debate that his dominated British media for more than two weeks risked sparking “fire” on the streets.

He said the friction between communities risked becoming “the trigger for the grim spiral that produced riots in the north of England five years ago. Only this time the conflict could be much worse”.

“All the recent evidence shows that we are, as a society, becoming more socially polarised by race and faith,” Phillips wrote in The Sunday Times newspaper.

“The only place where this may not be true is in our schools and the main reason is that in many of our cities things cannot get any worse.”

He called for a “civilised” debate on race.

Britain needs not a “civilised” debate or a decision as to whether they wish to cede British society and culture to the Muslims.

France is already witnessing a “permanent infitada” with daily attacks on police and car burnings.

Is this what Britain wishes?

Does the United Kingdom desire to become a “COLONY” of the Islamic Sharia state?

Stay tuned as the Britiish Islamification continues…….

A variety of headscarves and veils are worn by women at the Whitechapel market in east London in this photo, taken earlier this month. The row in Britain over Muslim women wearing the veil could trigger riots and worse, the country’s race relations watchdog chief warned.

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Muslim women are pictured at the Whitechapel market in east London. Former foreign minister Jack Straw has defended his call for Muslim women to remove their veils despite a storm of protests — and went further, saying he would like veils not to be worn at all.

AP: Rushdie: Veils take power from women

Prime Minister Tony Blair and author Salman Rushdie praised a British official on Tuesday for raising the difficult issue of whether Muslim women visiting his office should remove their veils.

The comment by Jack Straw, a former foreign secretary who now is leader of the House of Commons, has plunged Britain into a debate over Islamic integration.

“It’s important these issues are raised and discussed, and I think it’s perfectly sensible if you raise it in a measured and considered way, which he did,” Blair said of Straw during an interview with British Broadcasting Corp. television outside his office. “I think we can have these discussions without people becoming hysterical either way about it.”

So Tony Blair and most folks in Europe would think – a discussion. But, the English-living Muslims think otherwise.

Rushdie, whose book “The Satanic Verses,” once led to death threats against him by Islamic clerics, told BBC radio that Straw “was expressing an important opinion, which is that veils suck, which they do. I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.”

Straw said in a newspaper column published Thursday that he believes the veils favored by some Muslim women inhibit communication and are a sign of division in society. At his constituency office, Straw said he asks that veiled women reveal their faces, adding that the women have always complied, and a female assistant is always present.

On Friday, British media quoted Straw as going further, saying that he would prefer that Muslim women not wear veils at all. “I just find it uncomfortable if I’m trying to have a conversation with someone whose face I can’t see,” Straw told the BBC.

Many Muslims in Straw’s parliamentary district of Blackburn, in northwestern England, reacted with outrage.

Islamophobe is what Jack Straw is now being called. And Straw is being challenged by the RIGHT for the absurdity of the Labour Party’s immigration policies.

This is a discussion/argument about assimilation of cultures. But, do the Muslims living in England and who immigrated from the British colonies wish to assimilate into English life?

NOPE

Muslim women wearing veils out doing their shopping in Blackburn, England Friday Oct. 6, 2006. Britain’s former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw’s preference that devout Muslim women visiting his office remove their veils ignited a heated debate Friday about cultural isolation and tolerance in Britain. Straw is the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Blackburn.
The political correctness here is ridiculous and absurd.

Rushdie, who was forced into hiding for 10 years after Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini served a fatwa on him over his book’s alleged criticism of the Prophet Muhammad, said the veil can be used to suppress women.

“Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there’s not a single woman I know in my family or in my friends who would have accepted wearing a veil,” he said.

“I think the battle against the veil has been a long and continuing battle against the limitation of women, so in that sense I’m completely on (Straw’s) side.”

Indeed.

Flap is amazed that modern day women would tolerate the BS of the Veil. Whatever happened to the Feminist Movement and Womens’ RIGHTS? Where is the LEFT?

Dhimmitude

Flap guesses for Allah an exception is made to be treated not as an individual but as chattel.

Sort of RETRO.

Robert Spencer has The Straw that Broke the Burqa.

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