Ban the Burkha debate

This piece of clothing is just a way of young Muslim women to symbolise how our society is multicultural and diverse and even philosophically tolerant. Unfortunately this is a piece of clothing which imprisons women and is a potential threat to security, the reason behind this is because if we were all to wear this then catching criminals would be a nightmare, and would be near to impossible.As this is part of a religion and mindset of people, when they go to the airport they would not be asked to take of their Burkha simply because they do not want to go against their belief, but by doing this we would not be able to identify the person which would want to board the plane.

This is an extreme security risk due to the fact that face recognition would not be available.

There was an article talking about how a woman that was not Muslim wore this piece of clothing and when she went to the airport to migrate to a different country she was not questioned or asked to take the Burkha of and even though these security officers didn’t recognise this woman and they weren’t able to identify her they still let the woman through and she went on the plane unrecognised

not only is security an issue, but it is also about their religion itself, they do not HAVE to wear these burkes and cover their whole body as we can see that in the Koran verse 24 chapter 30 it says that “men should lower their gaze” when meeting a women to not stare in a wrongful way, but if he woman are being covered from head to toe, then this phrase/instruction would not be necessary.

Another discussion about banning the burka  is that if everyone has equal rights and men and women have equal rights then that would mean that everyone has the right to mask their faces, and that would become an outrage and no one would be happy.

also another one of the problems would be the women’s health, in the process of them covering their bodies they hardly receive any sunlight and no exposure,  a recent study in Arab Emirates that all but four were deficient in vitamin D, and the situation in Arab emirates are better than here in the up where it is really damp and dark, unfortunately our society is already seeing a rise in rickets and other bone related diseases, for the first time since the World War 1

 

  • health
  • security
  • society
  • religion

These are all points which many of the people which wear the burkha do not actually think about until its being affected and then there is nothing else to do.