Boris Johnson's Latest 'Gaff'

I blame Boris.

Its his legs, I expect.
All hairy and pale.

"I would personally agree to all full face cover to be banned, in UK and all EU and Switzerland too. It has no place here, and no real place in Islam either. I would also ban all religious schools, ALL."

Agreed. Especially the last sentence.

Oldbatty you didn’t actually answer my question.If you are a Muslim and prefer to cover up when you go outside and therefore are annoyed with posts on here, why not just say so?
Or if you are not Muslim, also just say so.

Why not? Because I prefer not to.

Because I prefer not to.
Quite.

Exactly oldbatty- non of your business lemongrove, at all.
What's this, the Inquisition???

I do not think it is anti-muslim to be concerned about fellow women who have been cut off from normal human communication. It is very sad.

Agreed. Most Muslim women would agree, from other countries and cultures where wearing full face covering is just not the norm at all, even for older women who have done the Hadj (pilgrimage)

Interesting oldbatty ......of course, it’s your choice.It would have given the rest of us an insight ( if you were) and you could have told us your reasons.
I did think it probably wasn’t the reason though, more that you dislike the Conservatives, and Boris especially.

What Boris has said ( in his own inimitable way) is that although he thinks burqa and niquab wearers look ridiculous, everybody should be allowed to look ridiculous if that’s how they wish to dress.
I have sympathy with that view, but feel women do cut themselves off by so doing, and also that faces should be seen.I would be very worried on the tube train by a burqa wearer and get off at the next available stop.

Its his legs, I expect.
All hairy and pale.

Either that or he's a fat blonde bloke from Bullington sic MissA

But this stereotyping is perfectly acceptable. Apparently.

oldbatty said "I am wondering why somebody walked by you gate saying " pity you couldn't have got a Muslim to do that" and I am asking what language they were speaking " Why would you assume the Muslim was not English and would be speaking a different language? Isn't that "casual racism"

Oldwoman I’m reminded of a story told to me by a Welsh friend.

She was waiting for her train at a railway station and a Muslim woman wearing the hijab was stood close by speaking to a friend.. A bullish, middle-aged man turned to them and said, if you want to live in this country you should at least learn to speak the language.

My friend turned to him and said ‘She does speak the language. This is Wales and she’s speaking Welsh.’

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iamnot
You really should be clearer when you are quoting from articles, so that the rest of us know which are your own words and which aren’t.
Use inverted commas, italics and hyperlinks and reference your sources so that we know exactly where these statements are coming from.
Thank you.

I refer you to the above link.

Iamnotarobot, are you sure?

Yes

So was your post of 7.32 written by the same woman?

Of course

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Why the lecture?
There is enough elsewhere, this thread purported to be about Johnson’s choice of language and we do not need screeds copied and pasted from other threads
Actually threads about threads are contrary to guidelines and are usually deleted.
There is such a thing as banging on.....