That is about the biggest load of xenophobic, fallacious bullshit I have seen all month. Are you really that narrow minded and fucking stupid?

I am an atheist. I have no interest in supporting Islam and certainly no interest in living anywhere in the Islamic world. Your statement is rather like telling a U.S. American to leave the country, if they don’t approve of bullshit.

What I do have an interest in, is supporting freedom of expression and the freedom of women to wear what they will. If what they wish to wear, is a veil, I support their right to do so. I have issues with women being forced to wear such bullshit and would support a law that at least attempted to prevent coercion to do so, understanding that such a law would be exceedingly difficult to enforce.

I am just as keen on supporting the right of women to go topless in the same places it is appropriate for men to. For that matter, I am rather keen on taking that further and supporting the right of people in my country to hang out at beach or pool completely naked. I am also dead against fucking blasphemy laws and any law that provides religion with an exemption from laws that everyone else is required to follow.

I just don’t happen to be a fucking hypocrite when it comes to my belief in liberty.

Wandering around in a veil negatively affects how everybody looks upon the wearer: they’re no longer an individual, just another, interchangeable woman.

I’d take these sorts of arguments more seriously if the people advancing them objected more frequently to the forms of objectification practised by our culture. But of course high heels, tube tops and miniskirts are a completely different matter, which women make fully free and informed choices to wear…

NO ONE should be allowed to walk around in public with something covering their face as it hides their identitym, and in this age of terrorism this is dangerous.

I have a full beard, and I normally wear sunglasses and a broad-brimmed hat. Got a problem with that, or is it OK ‘cos I is white and you can see my nose?

And in our surveillance society, the burqa completely defeats CCTV.

Mandatory RFID chips for everybody it is then (see above comment re: beard etc). Quit beating about the bush – if you want everybody’s every movement tracked, (a) come out and say so, and (b) propose a system that will actually work. Otherwise you’re just bullshitting.

I think it is an attack on freedom of expression by a society fearful of change or any threat to ‘national identity’ (whatever that is…)