1. Welcome! Please take a few seconds to create your free account to post threads, make some friends, remove a few ads while surfing and much more. ClutchFans has been bringing fans together to talk Houston Sports since 1996. Join us!

Woman in hijab attempts bank Robbery in Melbourne, Australia

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by IzakDavid13, Jul 17, 2012.

?

Should someone have to remove face coverings when using bank / gas station?

  1. Yes

    7 vote(s)
    33.3%
  2. No

    14 vote(s)
    66.7%
  1. sammy

    sammy Contributing Member

    Joined:
    Jul 5, 2002
    Messages:
    18,949
    Likes Received:
    3,528
    Her face was uncovered. I don't get what his point is either. Oh that's right...he doesn't really have one besides being anti-Moozlem.
     
  2. HorryForThree

    HorryForThree Member

    Joined:
    Jan 5, 2001
    Messages:
    2,949
    Likes Received:
    3,882
    Without getting into the obvious distortion and straw man argument being posited, I cant help but find amusing the glaring ironies in your posts....

    Quote
    Quote
     
  3. AroundTheWorld

    AroundTheWorld Insufferable 98er
    Supporting Member

    Joined:
    Feb 3, 2000
    Messages:
    69,338
    Likes Received:
    46,877
    I'm just picking up on your comparisons.
     
  4. Mathloom

    Mathloom Shameless Optimist
    Supporting Member

    Joined:
    Oct 4, 2008
    Messages:
    18,458
    Likes Received:
    18,548
    Edit: nvm, not worth it.
     
  5. AroundTheWorld

    AroundTheWorld Insufferable 98er
    Supporting Member

    Joined:
    Feb 3, 2000
    Messages:
    69,338
    Likes Received:
    46,877
    Hijab, niqab, burqa, etc., who cares.

    The issue of whether one should be allowed to cover one's face when entering a bank remains the same.
     
  6. AroundTheWorld

    AroundTheWorld Insufferable 98er
    Supporting Member

    Joined:
    Feb 3, 2000
    Messages:
    69,338
    Likes Received:
    46,877
    This post sounds very fanatic.
     
  7. IzakDavid13

    IzakDavid13 Contributing Member

    Joined:
    Jan 2, 2011
    Messages:
    9,958
    Likes Received:
    801
    And a question that he will refuse to answer by sending out a personal attack or challenging my knowledge of Islam...:)
     
  8. IzakDavid13

    IzakDavid13 Contributing Member

    Joined:
    Jan 2, 2011
    Messages:
    9,958
    Likes Received:
    801
    Like in this post...

    Here is a question for Mathloom...

    The one thing that I don't understand is if the Hajib, niqab or Burqa is a choice, and not something forced upon women why are they arrested and/or beaten in some middle eastern countries (specifically by so called moral or religious police?) for not wearing it?

    Another off topic question...

    Where does the sun set?:grin:
     
  9. IzakDavid13

    IzakDavid13 Contributing Member

    Joined:
    Jan 2, 2011
    Messages:
    9,958
    Likes Received:
    801
    I wonder if the 12 who voted that items covering the face shouldn't have to be removed before entering a bank or service station, would feel the same way if their wives, husbands or children were working in a bank or service station?

    They are basically saying that it is OK, in their opinion, to enter a bank in a ski mask...lol,
    Political Correctness gone mad.
     
  10. Mathloom

    Mathloom Shameless Optimist
    Supporting Member

    Joined:
    Oct 4, 2008
    Messages:
    18,458
    Likes Received:
    18,548
    Any person who has studied Islam would know:

    1) Burqa/niqab/hijab are not the same, the rules are different for all of them, and the source is different for all of them. Burqa is cultural, niqab is extremist, and hijab is believed to be Islamically mandatory according to the huge majority of Muslims.

    2) In Arabic language and in Islamic law, Niqab abd Burqa are pieces of clothing. Hijab is a dress code consisting of IIRC 5 rules.

    3) Burqa and Niqab are not legally mandatory anywhere in the world. They are also not considered mandatory by the huge majority of Muslims. In fact, burqa and niqaab are forbidden in some instances, especially during pilgrimmage (hajj or umra).

    4) Hijab is mandatory in 2 countries I'm aware of. That's not "some". Where it is mandatory legally, it is for political reasons, and always in countries where the power to legislate is held by brutal force.

    5) Beating someone for not wearing niqaab or burqaa is illegal everywhere.

    Once again you've embarrassed yourself.

    Personal attacks are wrong when the topic at hand should supercede the person's credibility. But since we quickly debunked your personal statements, and you refused to acknowledge it, the only topic of importance left to discuss was your credibility. This is vastly different than posters who are totally disinterested in the topic at hand and resort to personal attacks as a tool to undermine the real topic and true facts.

    To be perfectly clear, I'm not challenging your knowledge of Islam (lol!!). I am flat out calling you a liar with no knowledge of Islam beyond a few websites. Just like I said in another thread before, where it was also blatantly clear you had copy/pasted from those websites because the order of the pasted material was identical to one of the websites.

    A missionary with the most desperate, least fortunate and most poorly educated at his mercy caught red-handed lying about religion. I guess you were busy looking up answering-islam.com when they gave the course on ethics.

    Good day sir. Thanks for starting this thread. It was really bothering me that you were covering up your intentions. The irony of you being the one trying to keep a veil on is priceless.

    Good day sir.
     
  11. Mathloom

    Mathloom Shameless Optimist
    Supporting Member

    Joined:
    Oct 4, 2008
    Messages:
    18,458
    Likes Received:
    18,548
    Oh, and just in case you try to twist the one thread you're hanging on to, I completely reject the idea that women should wear niqab and/or burqa, and I can't see anyone in the thread who has said they support wearing them when identifying the face is necessary for safety/security purposes.
     
  12. IzakDavid13

    IzakDavid13 Contributing Member

    Joined:
    Jan 2, 2011
    Messages:
    9,958
    Likes Received:
    801
    [​IMG]
     
  13. JuanValdez

    JuanValdez Contributing Member

    Joined:
    Feb 14, 1999
    Messages:
    34,216
    Likes Received:
    13,663
    Oh no! With her hair covered like that, police will never be able to get a positive ID!

    Seriously, this is like wearing a baseball cap into a bank but actually less effective as a disguise. The brim of a cap can obscure your face from cameras mounted up high. A scarf on your head literally does nothing but hide your hair. Should we ban baseball cap wearing in banks? At least you won't have a discrimination suit to deal with, and I'm sure most guys will take off their caps when security asks them to, but man what a headache.

    Besides that, banks don't get robbed very much and the takes aren't very big anyway. Banks have a lot of security measures in place and video of a person's face isn't exactly the only line of defense. A gas station is a softer target, but they aren't just relying on video either. And, if they did, are you going to get guys to take off their baseball caps and sunglasses in a gas station? Be serious.


    Of course I'd feel the same way if my family was working at the establishment. I don't take some remote chance that they'll be held up at gunpoint by a woman in a hijab as an excuse to persecute Muslims, especially considering it's much more likely that they'll be held up by a man in a baseball cap and sunglasses.

    I have to wonder about the 5 who said Yes to this poll, assuming you were thinking of the American context, how do you think a rule like this would win in court when it's challenged as discrimination?

    As for the guy in a ski mask in a bank: he has 2 approaches. He can come in with force, in which case silly little rules about what he's allowed to wear don't matter. Or, he can come in as a regular patron and pull a weapon when he gets to the teller. In the latter case, I am sure that anyone with a ski mask, motorcycle helmet, burqa, or whatever that covers their face is going to be watched very closely by the armed security personnel. It's probably the worst way to rob a bank. If you want to be able to obscure your identity without raising too much suspicion, your best bet: baseball cap and sunglasses.

    The context is different for burqa-wearing women in Saudi Arabia and the USA. There could still be some repressive force used to make women wear it in the US, but there isn't the same potency. You can't have moral police beating people up for what they wear around here. And even a family member faces a real risk of prosecution for domestic abuse. If we're talking about people entering US banks with a burqa, moral police in some foreign country is irrelevant.

    These outfits for covering the hair and face are done to satisfy cultural norms for modesty. All other US laws concerning clothing that I can think of are also there for modesty. A burqa ban would be the first to enforce immodesty, which is a bit ridiculous. May as well go all out and ban shirt-wearing as an obvious repression by women's chauvinistic male oppressors. Show us the boobies! If you don't, you're not free!

    If you really feel the burqa is a repression, overlaying that repression with another, contradictory repression isn't the best way to go about solving it. Would these women be free from repression if we disallow the burqa? Of course not, you're just treating a symptom. You need to get at the problem a different way. It might help that the burqa is around because it's a big, tall flag that shows where your target for liberation is at.
     
    2 people like this.
  14. sammy

    sammy Contributing Member

    Joined:
    Jul 5, 2002
    Messages:
    18,949
    Likes Received:
    3,528
    The real question is if Lebron should be allowed to enter a bank or gas station with his headband on. Since it basically covers his head. :grin::rolleyes:
     
  15. across110thstreet

    across110thstreet Contributing Member

    Joined:
    Mar 17, 2001
    Messages:
    12,728
    Likes Received:
    1,399
    good thing those 17 users voted on the matter, we've got some real data now on this pressing issue of masked gunmen in gas stations and banks.

    folks this is real.

    but hey let's talk about why Saudi Arabs beat their women!

    insert a meme photo here...

    smiley
     
  16. AroundTheWorld

    AroundTheWorld Insufferable 98er
    Supporting Member

    Joined:
    Feb 3, 2000
    Messages:
    69,338
    Likes Received:
    46,877
    Why only for women? Shouldn't you as a leftist be all for equal rights and so on?

    What the hell is this supposed to mean? Are you trying to say that a woman not wearing a burqa is "immodest"? THAT is ridiculous. You are clutching at straws, seriously.

    [insert facepalm pic here]
     
  17. AroundTheWorld

    AroundTheWorld Insufferable 98er
    Supporting Member

    Joined:
    Feb 3, 2000
    Messages:
    69,338
    Likes Received:
    46,877
    Fanatical rant by a brainwashed Islamist.
     
  18. IzakDavid13

    IzakDavid13 Contributing Member

    Joined:
    Jan 2, 2011
    Messages:
    9,958
    Likes Received:
    801
    [​IMG]

    In Australia we have signs that request that you remove your helmet, sunglasses etc.

    No big deal, law abiding citizens will do what is right most of time.
     
  19. trustme

    trustme Member

    Joined:
    Jul 1, 2007
    Messages:
    1,882
    Likes Received:
    196
    Izakdavid is atw's new cjerk buddy since DD got banned.
     
  20. IzakDavid13

    IzakDavid13 Contributing Member

    Joined:
    Jan 2, 2011
    Messages:
    9,958
    Likes Received:
    801
    [​IMG]
     

Share This Page

  • About ClutchFans

    Since 1996, ClutchFans has been loud and proud covering the Houston Rockets, helping set an industry standard for team fan sites. The forums have been a home for Houston sports fans as well as basketball fanatics around the globe.

  • Support ClutchFans!

    If you find that ClutchFans is a valuable resource for you, please consider becoming a Supporting Member. Supporting Members can upload photos and attachments directly to their posts, customize their user title and more. Gold Supporters see zero ads!


    Upgrade Now