Zzonked wrote:Yeah I don't agree with the oppression to women, but they should be allowed to wear what they want to wear. No one is forcing them to wear it, but it's something they obviously believe in. If they didn't they wouldn't do it.
"Force" isn't just about physically having it put on your face and then if it comes off you'll get beaten though......it's a psychological thing.
These women are brought up to believe that they should be wearing these veils and if they don't they'll cause shame to their family. Is it really a good value to be teaching your daughters/fellow Muslims that it's bad to not cover yourself up so much?
You also have the religious factor. They get the impression that if they don't wear the veil, they're not doing the right thing and they're going to be punished for it. I don't need to be told "But the Quran doesn't say you have to at all"..the Bible doesn't say that soldiers in Afghanistan are evil and should die either, yet you have that retarded West Baptist Church (or whatever it's called) spewing their shitty ideals. It's not as extreme, but a bad ideal is a bad ideal.....
For me, there's no reason to wear a veil, and any reason that has been conjured up is something I don't agree with.
Also, coming back to the violence part....Muslim societies can be quite secretive but stories still come through of women and their families being physically threatened for doing things such as not wearing veils.
ResurrectionRooney wrote:I hate that argument 'We have to obey their customs, they should obey ours', it's utter bollocks. Those countries are inferior, and lets be honest, beneath Western democracies. We are better than them, and part of the reason for that is that we're tolerant, we let people do what they want as long as it doesn't harm others - to say 'You must obey this culture because people on this bit of land have done for years' is to lower ourselves.
I don't think people should be forced as that's not what we're about...you're right it would lower our standards.
That said, I think people who come here should WANT to be here for what this country is. Unfortunately, to most people we're just an easy going Liberal bunch of morons who chuck money and homes at anyone entering the country and have no backbone allowing immigrants to do what the hell they like as if we don't there's a lawsuit and a "racist" press story awaiting. People ultimately come here because the government redistributes money from UK citizens (of any race or nationality) to scroungers.
Is that the kind of country any of us can be proud of? I can't, and frankly whilst I'm not racist I'm not prepared to accept that what our country has given to these people is fair on us. We get the shit end of the stick......where is the Democracy in this country...charity is about WILLINGLY helping out...no one wants scrounging, disrespectful, hateful, criminal immigrants but we're forced to pay taxes which go into their pockets. Not every immigrant is like that, in fact most aren't like that at all....but that's the problem.....whenever the government or people generally want something done about bad individuals rather than races or nationalities....there is still chants of racism from ignorant morons too well off for their own good, or benefiting so much from the governments schemes that they'd think themselves hypocrites to say otherwise. I also have the same opinion of our own scrounging, disrespectful, hateful, criminal individuals but they're our responsibility....we have to deal with them but we shouldn't make shitty ungrateful immigrants ours.
How can I really argue the argument of "NO immigrants" when there's no real positive to it? besides.....going back 100 years I have no ancestry in England at all anyway.
You then have the other kind of ignorant people.....who think they're making a difference by protesting against Muslims who are all terrorists and Polish who are all stealing our jobs...when they don't have a clue about anything and it's probably their fault (as well as shitty organisations like the ECHR) that we're in such a mess.
I still think the Burkha should go....but it has nothing to do with immigrants, it's just oppressive and a security risk. Even if women say they want to wear it that's tough.....I still think they're being oppressed and even countries like the UK and France have government intervention because without the government we wouldn't know what's good for ourselves.
Also, in the end I never really expected immigrants to be complete carbon copies of us but a different colour....but at the very least they could be people worth keeping....when you move the UK it should be a privilege, and not respecting that should have a punishment.