Seeing through the Veil

Excellent report - never mind the length feel the breadth! Covers all the arguments out there - great brain food.

This a great report and really fascinating – it raises real questions on how best to defend our freedoms. The guy who bigs up the idea that Britain would never ban religious freedoms then justifies the prosecution of the B&B bigots is classic-sadly he thinks we have to look to the state for protection. The French lady is interesting as she shows what the state rescuing people really means i.e. contempt. She also cleverly argues that France banning the veil is not departing from a secular state- upholding freedom of religious belief, as the face veil is not in the Koran ergo wearing it is not a religious act. She also sees us as potential lunatics running around stabbing and looting if it were not for government rules. The atheist is classic holding people in the greatest contempt and supporting a ban on the burqa. It is striking then that only a defence of freedom meaning our capacity to sort matters for ourselves becomes the most vital argument to win. That then raises the problem of political disenchantment and distrust in our fellow man- a major problem to solve. Overall the report shows the merits of taking the public seriously and the huge potential of serious citizen TV. Well done all.

Damien Green is a clueless dimwit and a craven dhimmi coward in the pockets of the Arabs.

'Tolerance when applied to evil is a crime'......Thomas Mann

I can almost understand why certain people may feel slightly threatened by someone in a face veil, but I don’t think this should mean there is a right to ban the burqa completely, that’s a bit extreme! I mean if it’s a way of the women expressing themselves through their religion, and it’s their own choice to wear it, why then should the government have any right to intervene and ban the burqa?
These vox pops show that Britain is not a nation of racists and actually couldn’t care less about women in head scarves or face veils. Really good report but I think it would have been much better if there was an interview with a woman in a full burqa, to hear what she had to say about the matter… 2 thumbs up!

Excellent video. Well done! Best reportage I have seen on the issue of the face veil ban. What this cross-section of public opinion on the streets of London shows is that there is no excuse whatsoever to bring in a ban. People are not racists and it seems more generally that the public see more clearly that neither is what a Muslim woman chooses to wear as a matter of her religious belief the business of the state, nor are all burqa clad women passive victims. We should all reject any talk of such bans on the principle of guarding our liberty and protecting our freedom of conscience and our right to come to our own decisions based on reasoned debate and a public discussion, not through bans!