Way down in this article, Begum says: "Since 9/11, the whole terrorism thing, people think all Muslims must be members of al Qaeda. But my family is from Bangladesh, which is nowhere near the Middle East."
I am sure she herself has nothing to do with Al-Qaeda or jihad terrorism, but this is the sort of non-answer answer that has become dispiritingly familiar from Muslim spokesmen in the West. She isn't Al-Qaeda because she's from Bangladesh? Bangladesh doesn't have any jihadists?
It would have be refreshing if she had explicitly renounced the jihad ideology and Islamic supremacism, but I guess you can't have everything, or even much of anything.
"Muslim officer is first on the beat donning hijab," from the Cambridge Evening News, with thanks to WriterMom:
RUKSHANA Begum is, without question, one of a kind. This week, the 23-year-old will become the first police officer ever to wear the Muslim hijab, or headscarf, on duty in Cambridgeshire. And she can't wait."I've struggled to get where I am," she admits. "But I feel that my generation is the one which is going to break barriers. I hope that people will look at me and think, 'If she can do it, so can I'."
When they discovered she was planning to join the police force, Rukshana's parents went mad. Such a thing was, she explains, unheard of for a young Muslim woman. But, aged just 19, Rukshana herself had no doubts about what she wanted to do.
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"Once or twice I had to cancel a duty when family came over," she confesses. "They'd say 'Is your daughter a police?', like it was something shameful. It did wind me up. It's such a respectable thing to do, it's not like I was dossing in my spare time."
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Raised a devout Muslim, who learned how to pray and read the Qur'an at Cambridge's Abu Bakar Siddiq Mosque on Mawson Road, Rukshana recently came to another big decision: from now on, she's going to wear hijab - even when she's on police duty.
"Our parents never forced us to wear it," explains Rukshana. "But I'm a practising Muslim: I pray, I read the Qur'an, I fast during Ramadan . . . I thought 'If I can do all that, I want to take the next step forward to show my devotion to my faith'.
"And so I decided to wear a headscarf. You can't cherry pick when and where to wear it. That would be hypocritical, wouldn't it?"
Rukshana contacted Cambridgeshire Specials Co-ordinator Shahina Ahmed, herself a Muslim. At the time, last autumn, hijab was not issued as part of standard uniform. So the constabulary set about getting a scarf designed and made specially for Rukshana.
Sourcing various examples, from the few UK forces which provide hijab, they came up with the finished design earlier this year - with safety in mind. While most headscarves are held in place with pins, Rukshana's is fastened with a strip of poppers.
Should an assailant grab her hijab, while on duty, it will simply pull apart. Made to order by a tailor in Yorkshire, from a special stretchy material, the scarves cost £15 each to buy.
"I think it's a very positive thing," says Shahina. "The Chief Constable, Julie Spence, has been supportive from day one. But we did have some resistance from members of the force, asking 'Do you want to put your officer at risk?' I don't see it that way
* people have to accept you for who you are."After four years as a special (the only Muslim in her station), Rukshana has done everything from directing traffic to dealing with public disorder offences. And she's never encountered any violence or racism.
"People have always looked at me and known I was from an ethnic minority," she explains.
"Wearing a headscarf will narrow down my identity - people will know I'm a Muslim.
"And I see that as a really positive thing; it feels right for me, and I'm not expecting any negative impact.
"Since 9/11, the whole terrorism thing, people think all Muslims must be members of al Qaeda. But my family is from Bangladesh, which is nowhere near the Middle East...."
My family is from Bangladesh, nowhere near Pakistan...ooops!
Why not a niqab?
Like a virus. . .enter the body and destroy from within.
Put her on patrol in a muslim dominated neighborhood and see how long see lasts. Or maybe she can go undercover (excuse the pun) in a mosque; no, that won't work, she won't be able to pray with the men. But hey, I'm sure there's something unique she can do for queen and country. yada, yada, yada, inshalala.
Just more proof liberals sold out assimilation to multiculturalism in their determination to tell the world that they think all religions are the same, and equally relevant or irrelevant. Why is it so difficult for us Westerners to tell them if they want to create a multicultural society then they should take their asses to totalitarian states, like 90% of the ME, and North Africa?
"And so I decided to wear a headscarf. You can't cherry pick when and where to wear it. That would be hypocritical, wouldn't it?"
-- from the article above, quoting the Bangladeshi Muslim girl, now resident in the U.K. and having obtained British citizenship, who is about to become a policeman
Can you "cherry-pick" the Qur'an? Are there parts of the Qur'an that a Believer can ignore, such as that which tells Muslims not to take Christians and Jews for friends, or that which tells them about the duty, central to Islam, to participate, collectively or in some cases individually, in Jihad to spread Islam and remove all barriers to it? This girl should be presented with all the Jihad passages in the Qur'an, and then with many more in the Hadith, and of course the examples taken from the Sira, the life of Muhammad, and asked if she thinks she can ignore these things, can simply "cherry-pick"?
We need to know, especially if she is going to be given the power to arrest, the power to regulate the behavior, both of Believers, fellow members of the umma al-islamiyya, to whom all her loyalty should be owed, and of Infidels, to whom she owes nothing except, at times, in order to further or shore up the position of Islam, a feigned and most temporary friendship.
Let's find out what kind of "cherry-picking" is allowed, what kind of hypocriticial practicing of taqiyya and kitman are permitted.
"And so I decided to wear a headscarf. You can't cherry pick when and where to wear it. That would be hypocritical, wouldn't it?"
-- from the article above, quoting the Bangladeshi Muslim girl, now resident in the U.K. and having obtained British citizenship, who is about to become a policeman
Can you "cherry-pick" the Qur'an? Are there parts of the Qur'an that a Believer can ignore, such as that which tells Muslims not to take Christians and Jews for friends, or that which tells them about the duty, central to Islam, to participate, collectively or in some cases individually, in Jihad to spread Islam and remove all barriers to it? This girl should be presented with all the Jihad passages in the Qur'an, and then with many more in the Hadith, and of course the examples taken from the Sira, the life of Muhammad, and asked if she thinks she can ignore these things, can simply "cherry-pick"?
We need to know, especially if she is going to be given the power to arrest, the power to regulate the behavior, both of Believers, fellow members of the umma al-islamiyya, to whom all her loyalty should be owed, and of Infidels, to whom she owes nothing except, at times, in order to further or shore up the position of Islam, a feigned and most temporary friendship.
Let's find out what kind of "cherry-picking" is allowed, what kind of hypocriticial practicing of taqiyya and kitman are permitted.
"And so I decided to wear a headscarf. You can't cherry pick when and where to wear it. That would be hypocritical, wouldn't it?"
-- from the article above, quoting the Bangladeshi Muslim girl, now resident in the U.K. and having obtained British citizenship, who is about to become a policeman
Can you "cherry-pick" the Qur'an? Are there parts of the Qur'an that a Believer can ignore, such as that which tells Muslims not to take Christians and Jews for friends, or that which tells them about the duty, central to Islam, to participate, collectively or in some cases individually, in Jihad to spread Islam and remove all barriers to it? This girl should be presented with all the Jihad passages in the Qur'an, and then with many more in the Hadith, and of course the examples taken from the Sira, the life of Muhammad, and asked if she thinks she can ignore these things, can simply "cherry-pick"?
We need to know, especially if she is going to be given the power to arrest, the power to regulate the behavior, both of Believers, fellow members of the umma al-islamiyya, to whom all her loyalty should be owed, and of Infidels, to whom she owes nothing except, at times, in order to further or shore up the position of Islam, a feigned and most temporary friendship.
Let's find out what kind of "cherry-picking" is allowed, what kind of hypocritical practicing of taqiyya and kitman are permitted.
So she wasn't forced to wear the headscarf by her parents, but now she chooses to wear it all the time and on the job.... So typical of the islam-in-your-face self-righteouness and they get away with it - because we let them. I'll doubt she is doing any policing in any muslim neighborhood. Can't wait 'til she gets called to a domestic fight involving a muslim couple...
Surely as a Muslim woman especialy an unmarried one at that she is not allowed to touch or be touched by men who are not direct blood relatives? That being the case how can she possibly perform her duties but if she does and considers it OK to touch men who are not close blood relatives surely that makes her an apostate and not a real Mulsim and if she is not a REAL Mulsim why the hell does she want to wear the Niquab. Seems too much like point scoring and Political Correctness gone mad to me.
"But I'm a practising Muslim: I pray, I read the Qur'an, I fast during Ramadan . . . I thought 'If I can do all that, I want to take the next step forward to show my devotion to my faith'.
And what's the next step after this? Following up on some of those parts Hugh has outlined here???
""Wearing a headscarf will narrow down my identity - people will know I'm a Muslim."
....this will let the bombers know which way to run when the police arrive to hunt them down...
Sorry should have said Hijab instead of Niqab but I am sure it wont be long before we have hordes of Batmen masquarading as Policewomen on Brtains streets. God help us.
"Once or twice I had to cancel a duty when family came over," she confesses."
So now we know her true allegiance. Family and religion first.
And I guess she’ll have to have her fellow police cover for her during prayer times. Or how about when those tiresome court appearances conflict with prayer time? I guess the judge and the whole court process will just take tea while they wait for her. Special wash stations and prayer rooms in the courthouse too?
Speaking for myself , i doubt i'd feel especially safe or NON threatened by being appraoched or pulled over by a mask wearing person claiming to be a police officer whether she is or not . there is gonna be a lot of confusion with the average joe with this get up and i really do think it will put this Muslim girl at risk.
"I'm not Al-Qaeda" she says. As if anyone is so stupid as to believe only Al-Qaeda wants to kill infidels.
Can the police trust her? Obviously she could just be undercover – I wouldn’t let her know where & when the next raid on jihadist will be. After all, if she is a true Muslim, she thinks her god tells her directly:
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” And when you journey in the earth, there is no blame on you if you shorten the prayer, if you fear that those who disbelieve will cause you distress, surely the unbelievers are your open enemy.”
The taxi drivers are the eyes and ears and nerves and 'mobile strike force' of Islamically infiltrated and neutralized Britian. Hijabbed cops are just gravy.
Since the muslims have been assaulting Christians and Hindus in Bangladesh for quite some time now - should we expect the same from her and hers? Only now she is representing those who would stop such things - or would she? Can I see her, along with other UK police, against rioting muslim males?
no.
She should be banned from wearing it - simple as that.
Or shall we sit back and wait for sharia law in UK and let her fellow muslims ban her from being a police officer?
Oh, and I forgot to mention that it isn't only al qaeda who are doing the killing - it is muslims who are obeying their koran's teachings and following their decrepit prophet's example.
"Raised a devout Muslim, who learned how to pray and read the Qur'an at Cambridge's Abu Bakar Siddiq Mosque on Mawson Road, Rukshana recently came to another big decision: from now on, she's going to wear hijab - even when she's on police duty."
Madras Lesson No. 1: Don't let women learn how to read!
While I have differed with other posters in the past regarding immigration from muslim majority countries, here, I concur with anyone who syas she should never be allowed to wear the headscarf while on duty, no exceptions. She should be placed in areas with muslim majority, most likely ghettos so disparate they could make Compton or Detroit look mild by comparision, and judged by how well she keeps muslim fanatics under control. She should be scrutinied at any moment possible for how she judges suspects based on being muslim or non muslim. If she objects to any measurements like these, she needs to be given warnings firsthand and then dismissed immediately. Observing muslims' reactions to these measures will most likely serve as a first step towards determing which of the muslim migrants are here to assimilate and which of them ar ehere to spread Dar al Islam.
BTW, does anyone know accurately, i.e. how many of bangladesh's 100 million muslims, have support for Al Qeada, Muslim Brotherhood, Jamal y islamiyah and like minded groups? Obviously, it has risen dramatically since the early 1990s when Islamist support in Bangladesh began to rise. ANd of those who oppose Al Qaeda, how many oppose it out of ideological grounds? How many muslims there oppose Al Qeada because they believe in secular, democratic and enlightened values, that non-muslims and women should be respected as equals and attacks against civilians, whether Hindus, Westrerners or even Jews in Israel, should be prohibited. I imagine it used to be a fair number, back in the 60s and 70s, but now I imagine, out of 100 million muslims, the number who fit this mindset is quite small.
While I have differed with other posters in the past regarding immigration from muslim majority countries, here, I concur with anyone who syas she should never be allowed to wear the headscarf while on duty, no exceptions. She should be placed in areas with muslim majority, most likely ghettos so disparate they could make Compton or Detroit look mild by comparision, and judged by how well she keeps muslim fanatics under control. She should be scrutinied at any moment possible for how she judges suspects based on being muslim or non muslim. If she objects to any measurements like these, she needs to be given warnings firsthand and then dismissed immediately. Observing muslims' reactions to these measures will most likely serve as a first step towards determing which of the muslim migrants are here to assimilate and which of them ar ehere to spread Dar al Islam.
BTW, does anyone know accurately, i.e. how many of bangladesh's 100 million muslims, have support for Al Qeada, Muslim Brotherhood, Jamal y islamiyah and like minded groups? Obviously, it has risen dramatically since the early 1990s when Islamist support in Bangladesh began to rise. ANd of those who oppose Al Qaeda, how many oppose it out of ideological grounds? How many muslims there oppose Al Qeada because they believe in secular, democratic and enlightened values, that non-muslims and women should be respected as equals and attacks against civilians, whether Hindus, Westrerners or even Jews in Israel, should be prohibited. I imagine it used to be a fair number, back in the 60s and 70s, but now I imagine, out of 100 million muslims, the number who fit this mindset is quite small.
Make her wear the burqa, or nothing.
No halfways measures, Brits.
Know thy enemy.
Knowing how the British love practical jokes, I have no doubt she will be guarding an Israeli consulate or other Jewish interests. Everyone will have a good chuckle over it, I'm sure.
people have to accept you for who you are."
from article above
What a typical statement coming from a hypocritical muslim! No, people don't have to accept you for who you are; do muslims accept non-muslims "for who they are"? Hell no they don't, their mission is to convert, subjugate, or kill all non-muslims in their own countries and establish an islamic hades with sharia for all.
Government imposed tolerance of the intolerable and intolerant is just as egregious as compulsory islam for people who want no part of it. Thought control via propaganda and threats of criminal prosecution might silence people temporarily, but these tenuous, interim solutions will never be permanently sustained.
If she can't "cherry-pick" her religion, why in the HELL is she not sitting her hijabbed butt AT HOME like a good muzlim girl???
I agree with profitsbeard, she should be told she can't "cherry-pick" her religion OR her job and wear the niqab or the uniform.
"I am sure it wont be long before we have hordes of Batmen masquarading as Policewomen on Brtains streets. God help us." - Realist
ROFLMAO!!! Nice visual...Thanks!!!
Next time you deal with a police officer ask him/her about his religion - and explain you don't trust that one who is not of the same religion as you are can treat you fairly.
And the point of a UK police officer prancing around in a hijab is exactly what?
Is that out of uniform or must all UK police officers be similarly attired?
In view of all the recent news about honour killings, does it not seem odd that the subject does not get a mention in this article ? Or have I missed it ?
Wearing a headscarf will not only narrow down her identity so that people will know she is a Muslim, it will also point to the kind of Muslim she is. How many potential honour victims will feel that a police officer who advertises her affiliation in this particular way will be someone they can turn to, or trust. And her father is a taxi driver......Gott im Himmel , I don't think anyone could dream this up, so it must be true.
Is this the same policewoman who would not shake hands with the Police Commissioner upon her recent graduation, nor pose for a photo with him because it might be used for *propaganda purposes*?
Or am I thinking of another hijabbed PCW??
Given the current political equation in that country, I'll say around 50% of that country's total population. Since Bangladesh is 88% Muslim, result is that only 1/3rd of Bangladesh's Muslims are opposed to Jihadi organizations, - the remaining 12% of the opposition coming from Buddhists, Hindus and other minorities.
Great notice, SusanP!!
I find this all laughable that is that the Koran requires the wearing of the hijab.
I worked for a certain very large oil company that shall remain nameless. We would bring over trainees from a certain kingdom in the ME for training in the US. One time we had a fellow who was in the US for a training assignment at a refinery. OSHA rules required the refinery workers be clean-shaven so as to get a tight seal with their airmask. The trainee refused to shave his beard. Finally the VP (a Muslim) said "there is nothing in the Koran that requires wearing a beard, he either shaves his beard or he goes back."
seems to me this young woman (from reading the article) was receiving a lot of pressure from her family. the best thing for her is to break free from them and go out on her own.