Senator Cory Bernardi is the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary Assisting the Leader of the Opposition and a Senator for South Australia. He is a strong defender of women’s rights. As if that’s not good enough, he is now calling for a burqa ban. In an essay posted on Menzies House the conservative Liberal Party politician asserted: [...]
A terrible accident (or so it appears) happened in Libya earlier today: a plane, with 104 people on board, crashed when it tried to land. 103 people died. The sole surviver was a ten year old Dutch boy. It seems likely that at least one of his parents died in the crash, possibly both. He [...]
“All of France will say ‘non’ to the full veil and will ask that this practice be prohibited on the territory of the republic.” An update on this story. “Parliament to declare the full veil ‘contrary’ to national values,” from Agence France-Presse, May 11: AFP – France is on course…
Another chapter in the jihad against Vitamin D, and an update on this story. “Belgium analyses video threat over Muslim veil ban,” by Antonia Van de Velde for Reuters, May 6: (Reuters) – Belgian authorities are analysing a video containing threats to attack the country and other European states if…
The fact that we have seen the burqa used to carry out all manner of crimes in various countries– from robberies to suicide bombings — is but one practical manifestation of a larger set of issues. As one Australian senator observed, the garb “represents the repressive domination of men over…
More on this story. “Belgium bans burkas: Women who refuse to show faces to be jailed for a week under draft law,” from the Daily Mail, April 30: Belgium became the first European country to impose a full ban on wearing a burka last night. Its parliament approved a draft…
“CAIR: Anti-Islam Ads Pulled From Miami Buses,” CAIR’s press release on the dhimmis at Miami-Dade Transit pulling our religious liberty bus ads, has the unsavory Hamas-linked thugs yet again doing the sack dance over the freedom of speech, and spreading sleazy libels about Pamela Geller and me. The South Florida…
A call went out on the website “sharia4belgium” for Muslims to come disrupt the lecture — in accord with Sharia prohibitions on saying anything deemed critical of Islam, Allah, or Muhammad. “Extremist Muslims prevent free speech,” from Flanders News, April 1 (thanks to Tanguy Veys): The Belgian-Dutch author Benno…
A Parliamentary committee in Belgium has just voted to ban the burqa. The language of the ban is strategically neutral in terms of religion and ethnicity: It bans “face coverings,” not “niqab” or the “burqa.” This is the only approach that might work but I doubt that the full Parliament will approve it; and, [...]
