Should the Burqa be banned in Australia

[nero_bolt]

Should the Burqa and Niqab be banned in Australia?

[bushies.girl]

Yeah we tend to buy the same stuff each week, never read the labels, wouldnt have a clue whats in them.

[cherry*135]

Punch - I can read the smallest print on the page the Optom gives me but on some food labels..no way, it really is the fine (small) print.
Gold print on black is bad too.

I read a fair few labels for ingredients and country of origin.

[bushies.girl]

If you buy similar items each week, wouldnt you only have to read the labels once?

[cherry*135]

Don't buy the same items/brands every week, nor stick with same supermarket chain.

[bushies.girl]

Fair enough, we dont buy much canned/bottled food ..... mainly shop in Aldi

[iapetus_rocks]

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@am*3 wrote:
My daughter spent a month living in Malaysia recently.. Alcohol is sold ( in bars) only to tourists (at a fairly expensive price).
How would Muslims get there hands on it?

Iap*rocks.. Do the young men go home and breath beery/spirits breath over their parents?

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Sly grog shops operate over there as they used to do here. I think the thing is, over there, to not make the consumption of haram things public.

Like so many things, what goes on in private, remains so. I was just interested that the public position is prohibition where the private position is . . . sort of . . . "whose shout is it?"

When I lived in England years ago, there were students from the Persian Gulf who would buy whiskey and drink it quite happily.

I am concerned at the apparent intstances of hypocrisy in the examples I quoted.

[azureline**]

I don't need to be concerned about hypocrisy,  that is for their conscience.

I don't shop much but dietary needs in my family require certain things not be in the pantry and fridge.

[iapetus_rocks]

Well, the reason to be concerned about hypocrisy is, as I said, that there are certain people who will impose prphibitions on others and yet, in the privacy of their own homes, abandon such prohibitions in favour of  . . . consume, consume, consume.

It's not right that they should harrass women for not dressing modestly, while all the time looking forward to the evening when they can get **bleep**-faced with their mates in the desert, out of sight but not out of mind, because it's an open secret in Saudi.

[purplecarrot-top]

So what about hypocrisy in other religions? Or is it only Muslim hypocrisy that concerns you?

[iapetus_rocks]

No, it's not. Hypocrisy exists everywhere, in all peoples and in all religions.

It's just that those who live in glass houses still want to throw stones. And that is bad, ok? 😉