Well it kind of is because if you need to see a woman’s face and she has it covered then you can ask her to remove it, just like you can with any other face covering
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She needs to have her face uncovered at all times. Like everyone else does.
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You and I don’t need to have our face uncovered at all times. I go out in winter all the time with my scarf wrapped around my lower face to keep out the cold. So you and I need to stop doing that right?
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It only covers a part of your face and actually you’d probably pull your scarf down to chat to someone precisely because that is a societal norm. And it serves a useful practical purpose. The burkha doesn’t.
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Like I have constantly tweeted, you have every right to ask any Muslim woman to remove the veil if it is preventing you from having a conversation, and no I wouldn’t move my scarf if I was cold
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Yeah you would. I think we both know that asking a woman to remove her veil would result in a visit from the police.
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No I really wouldn’t, and I ask women to remove it on an almost daily basis so that I can do my job and not one of them has ever called the police. And I thought you were an intelligent woman
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I think people shouldn’t walk around, do their job, attend classes etc with their faces covered, whether with a burkha, niqab, balaclava or anything else. I note that in a tweet which doesn’t @ me, you’ve called me a racist. That’s pathetic of you. At least do it to my face.
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You don't think women with their faces covered can interact with other people?
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Not in the same way as people with their faces showing. No smiles, no facial expression. It’s just plain rude.
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It is also very rude to demand that women wearing a face covering take off that covering just because YOU find it rude.
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I’m not asking them to take it off. I’m asking that they don’t wear it in the first place. Because it’s rude.
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Nobody is saying these things! What is wrong with you and your pretend outrage about made up stuff and lack of outrage at real stuff?
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Er, people are literally saying both of those exact things.
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Wrong. A holocaust survivor who has since died said the first. None is saying that now. Isfai oppression is shocking but that is a false analogy. Boris got done for abusive islamaphobia, not talking about people’s clothes
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No dear, comparisons to Nazi actions is more than apt, and certainly not anti Semitic. Aren’t Palestinians also Semites?
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You need to read a bit more.
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I’m afraid you do.
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