The Fuss Over Veils

Is nothing anyone can say that will not offend the Muslims? I guess not.

The recent row over Jack Straw's comments over Muslim women's veils proves time and again how Muslims over-react, how Western society will blindly gloss over this and nod their lazy approval and how the press is more than willing to bend over. Please read here.

Veils DO restrict women. It deliberately separates women from the rest of the community, all the while marking them as a visible minority in countries where Islamic practices are not the norm. A backward and warsome prophet (the word "prophet" is used in the weakest sense imaginable) demanded women that women wear veils. His opinion of women was already low and this trait has sinced been cultivated over the centuries. Men, apparently, cannot use their free will to not act on urges or even have the common decency to not have the urges in the first place and see women as people. Therefore, women must cover up in these wholly uncomfortable and impractical garments.

The teacher in question really shouldn't have a leg to stand on. If her students cannot understand her, then her effectiveness as an educator is diminished. Also, she lives in a country where not only does she NOT have to wear a veil but she can change jobs that would suit her- rather, Islam's- wishes. The fact that she invoked the children is a just lowpoint in her argument. The children couldn't understand her, anyway, and I think parents (and pretty much everyone) are fed up with catering to a minority which has no desire to assimilate or co-operate with the majority.

There are, of course, the special interest groups that decry this criticism as "demonising". Yeah. I'm sure by now that Islam and the Muslim community have done that on their own without the help (read: constructive criticism) of everyone else around them.

If people truly value education then why hire those who point-blank refuse to do their jobs effectively? Will political correctness win out over common sense? Probably at this point.