Sentences with phrase «ban burkas»

People aren't really up for privatising the BBC, establishing a Margaret Thatcher day or banning the burka, funnily enough Turns out voters typically want their politicians to be to the left of Attila the Hun.

MPs will debate whether to ban the burka today, as the first of a tranche of radically right - wing private members bills hit the Commons.

Banning the burka and introducing daylight saving time are among the measures proposed in Tory MPs» Private Member's Bills

And even if one manages to ban the burka specifically and not the nun habit, how would one deal with muslim women throwing away their burkas and wearing the allowable nun habit?

My question is, how would one then politically and legislatively navigate around the issue of banning the burka specifically, and not any other similar - looking clothing, such as nun habits?

If there really is a group of women being forced to wear the burka in western societies, what an atrocity, but is banning the burka really helping them?

If a country which wishes to ban the burka, it obviously can not do so outright, since that would directly restrict many basic freedoms, such as personal freedom, religious freedom, etc..

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Among the party's other policies: a # 50bn a year cut in spending, a 31 per cent flat rate of income tax, the abolition of national insurance, a five - year freeze on new immigrants settling in Britain, a ban on wearing the burka in public - and in some private — buildings, and boot camps for young offenders.

Some 45 % supported a ban on the wearing of a burka in places such as schools and airports, with 38 % opposing such a ban.

There were some remarkable ideas in there, like a ban on the burka, the reintroduction of capital punishment, the privatisation of the BBC and the renaming of the August bank holiday as Margaret Thatcher Day.

This establishes the general intentions of the «burka ban», while leaving working space for concerns about security.

Banning all possible modifications of the burka would therefore undermine our laws that ban public nudity.

Conservatives MPs have camped out for four days in parliament to force a debate on radical right - wing policies, including a ban on the burka in public, the privatisation of the BBC and bringing back the death penalty.

Hence the burka ban seems to accomplish just as much female degradation and oppression as the burka itself is supposedly doing.

Assuming a burka ban is in place, how can it be phrased whilst also protecting all other people covering themselves for a multitude of sensible reasons.

The Netherlands is considering banning women from wearing burkas «where they may interfere with public safety, perhaps by concealing the identity of a terrorist,» reports Jurist.

The charter would ban the wearing of kippas, turbans, burkas, hijabs and «large» crosses for civil servants while they are on the job.