I can think of one or two that should have her face covered but this Jack Straw has something here.

No. No-one should be told how to dress by the goverrnment for any reason whatsoever.

eh?

Well maybe the uniformed services then.....but not in their own time.

there's some women down Church Street most Saturday nights who need a carrier bag as a minimum

over their heads, like

No one should be forced (French decison re: schools was ridiculous) but the decision to talk about it was right and the points made by Straw were correct in my opinion - that it is difficult to talk to someone in that full shebang and that it may cause mistrust in some people

aye, like talking to a bloke in a monkey suit or something...

I don't pretend to understand the whole beekeeper outfit thing but surely common courtesy demands that you don't talk to someone with your face covered.

I always do that, my face is always covered. With tomato sauce, parmo cheese and John Smiths

Your face is covered with the Hartlepool flag - I guess the tomato sauce, parmo cheese and John Smiths is under that and I bet Jack Straw has never spoken to you.

nah, it's the "bottle o' water" under there!!! She laughed when she saw that I've used it for my avatar

The full face-hider is a load of bollocks and if I understand correctly has never been an explicit requirement of the Muslim faith, only some weirdo's interpretation of it.
The French Muslim girls on, the other hand are not even allowed to wear a bit of a headscarf at school because "no outward signs of creed are allowed". Its the Froggy ethos of separation of church and state taken to its absurd limits. You can wear a blue and red striped shirt with "Ronaldinho" on the back, which is about as clear a statement of creed as you can get, but you can't wear a headscarf folded in a certain way.

There's only a small proportion of them who want to wear the damned headscarf anyway. And it's usually their choice, not the parents'.

When these ladies fly do they show their faces to customs????

What would happen if me and a couple of mates were walking down York Road with SAS Masks on????

Would the Police tell me/us to remove them????

stupid

I don't know, but you could pinch all sorts from Asda or Tesco without getting frisked either. I'm off to buy one of those burka things for meself right now!!!
PS does anyone want anything from the fridge counter while Ali -al-Parmo goes shopping?

Yeah get us a few onion bhajis and some samosas. Bit of cucumber raita if they've got any....