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Video from UK: When a man covers his face and enters a bank

Aug 19, 2018 10:07 am By Joshua Winston

Michael lives in a northeastern town that is nowhere near as bad as London, but already he feels the need to speak up against sharia and the niqab. In a bid to prove equality, he entered a bank (Lloyd’s, notorious for giving out sharia mortgages and loans) and he attempted to make a deposit. He was successful, but the manageress came over to chastise him about his full facial covering. Michael rightly insisted that he was wearing a face covering for religious reasons and that he was afraid of sexual assault if he was showing any kind of flesh.

Joshua Winston – Where did the inspiration for the video come from?

Michael – I had been in a Facebook argument with some people about the niqab and faces being covered. I felt I had to make  a statement and do something about it. Either everyone gets to cover their face or no one does. It’s not just about niqabs and crash helmets. It’s about safety and security. There were also no signs outside of the bank saying that people with covered faces couldn’t enter, and yet I was tackled by the manageress.

JW – Was there a final straw for you and a moment when you thought, “F*ck this”?

M – I live in North East England. We don’t have it as bad up here as the rest of the UK does, but already I’m sick of the double standards and the lies and excuses about the niqab being a religious item. I’m tired of people using the “religious” excuse and I’m tired of the ignorance of people who don’t even question or investigate their statements.

JW – The footage is a bit rough. What was the manageress saying to you?

M – She was really just whining that we couldn’t film in the bank. And she questioned my face covering as really being a religious and sexual necessity.

JW – You were wearing a balaclava, do you think you’d have gotten a different response if you’d worn even the top half of a niqab? You know, those ones that they pull to the side in order to eat? They always remind me of horsey-feeding bags.

M – That wasn’t the issue for me, the issue was the fact that you could not identify me in that bank. I could have been a female bodybuilder and no one would have known or have been able to identify me had I committed a crime.

JW – Is this a religious or a feminist issue for you, or both?

M – It’s a security and equality issue. If anyone is allowed to enter a public space, then it should go both ways. Men should be able to do it just the same as women are. But no one should be allowed to go around with their whole face obscured.

JW – Why are they getting away with it?

M – People are scared to be deemed as racist. It’s that simple. And they are using it as a weapon against us.

JW – Have you done any other type of activism?

M – Not before. This is my first, and the wife is giving me hell for it.

JW – Can we expect more from you in the future?

M – Let’s see what the Mrs. says.

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  1. Debbie says

    Aug 19, 2018 at 10:10 am

    We should get together a movement where on one specific day everyone concerned about this issue does exactly this at their local bank and then puts it onto FB and Twitter. Try to get press coverage as well. Need to emphasise that this is a security and equality issue.

    • Andy says

      Aug 19, 2018 at 5:35 pm

      The end of London, UK & Western Judeo-Christian Civilization.

      Prepare Yourself.

      • narahari says

        Aug 20, 2018 at 1:18 am

        Sad. Democracy is a failure since it enables the lowest scum to put their man in power. A monarchy that runs a nation dharmically is the best form of governance, as proposed in Indian scriptures.

        • StellaSaidSo says

          Aug 20, 2018 at 1:48 am

          It was the ABUSE of democracy that got Sadiq Khan into the Mayor’s office: he cheated. The same sort of abuse got Macron into the Elysee Palace, and almost got Hillary into the White House.

          Regarding running a nation ‘dharmically’ being ‘the best form of governance’, I see no historical evidence to back up this silly claim.

          Democracy may not be perfect, but the most successful, advanced societies in the world today are run on democratic principles. As Churchill observed in 1947, ‘Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others’.

        • Carolyne says

          Aug 20, 2018 at 9:59 am

          The UK is a monarchy, not a democracy. They have no written Constitution and because of that, Parliament can institute any law they wish with no written document to stop then. Apparently they have led the UK down the slippery slope of Islam with what appears to be little, if any objection from the Queen’s subjects. Subjects, not citizens.

        • StellaSaidSo says

          Aug 20, 2018 at 10:24 am

          Carolyne, the UK is not a monarchy, it is a CONSTITUTIONAL monarchy, which is a very different thing. The Queen has no power to make policy, and is constrained from even expressing a political opinion. She reigns, but she does not rule. The Westminster system of parliamentary democracy has provided a model for other countries throughout the British Commonwealth, whose citizens are also Her Majesty’s subjects. The fact that the UK has been plagued by poor options in terms of elected political leadership is due to a number of factors, not least of which is the insidious reach of the globalists, thru the EU. I agree that a written constitution would be an advantage, going forward, as would proportional representation.

        • Andy says

          Aug 20, 2018 at 12:06 pm

          Canada’s Trump | Maxime Bernier

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 20, 2018 at 11:30 pm

          Very much agree, Stella.

        • StellaSaidSo says

          Aug 21, 2018 at 2:32 am

          Peter35, the US system is very different from the British system. Apples and oranges.

          Besides, whatever the system, the bad guys will find a way to cheat!

        • StellaSaidSo says

          Aug 21, 2018 at 4:18 am

          ‘Smart guy’, I don’t think you quite understand what Lord Macaulay meant when he described a constitutional monarch as ‘a sovereign who reigns but does not rule.’

          It is not true to say that Queen Elizabeth II has the same powers as Queen Victoria, who had considerable personal power initially, though this diminished over the course of her reign. By the end of her reign, Victoria’s stature derived from the fact that she presided over an Empire, rather than from any direct authority.

          The exercise of the Royal Assent is not discretionary. The Queen does not have the power to refuse assent, nor can she choose political leaders. She has the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, and the right to warn.

          If any one person can be blamed for ‘the Islamic cess-pit that England has become’, it is Tony Blair.

      • Jennifer King says

        Aug 20, 2018 at 5:21 am

        The Labour Party led by Blair ruined Britain in the 1990’s with their deliberate policy of mass third world immigration and multicultural fascism.
        The next Tory Party also sank to the same level and reinforces it nowadays.

        • Anne Smith says

          Aug 20, 2018 at 5:27 am

          Ms King – absolutely right. The so called Tory party is no such thing, it is now comprised of Cultural Marxists.

      • Barry Napier says

        Aug 20, 2018 at 6:17 am

        Banning cars in London… it isn’t the cars, it is who drives them deliberately into crowds to kill them. That is, Islamist terrorists. So the answer is to get rid of all Muslims who entered the UK in the last five years (because nearly all of them came illegally and threw their papers away), and to seriously profile all the others, especially in no-go areas. The UK must get real!! (Comments are based on regular news reports). This is not racism – it is opposition to allowing Islam to take over the country, to send us back to the middle ages.

      • Tony Holland says

        Aug 20, 2018 at 7:13 am

        ONLY if we,the STUPID British allow it by continually returning to Westminster the duplicitous,lying,appeasers ,the Con/Lab duopoly of career politicians who would rather hold onto their highly paid jobs and say nothing for fear that they get themselves ‘labelled’, that’s what they all dread.For Christs sake THINK before voting,stop returning the fraudsters,two sides of the same coin,think ‘outside the box’as the saying goes,there are plenty of genuine people running parties that love their country and wish to keep it white and British,use your individual talents to persuade these ‘street’ parties’ to combine and form one strong movement for change AND SURVIVAL,we CAN do it,depends how much value we put on our Great country and its culture,–tick tock.

        • PAMELA PREEDY says

          Aug 20, 2018 at 1:35 pm

          Good for Michael with his face-covering protest.
          Tony, you are absolutely right. I belong to the For Britain Party led by Anne Marie Waters who is fearless in her truth-telling about islam and its attack on our society through overt and covert means. I used to be in Ukip but left when they elected their 3rd dud leader and sidelined Anne Marie for being un-PC.
          Unless voters begin to see liblabcon for what it is and vote to get rid of it, we will continue on this downward path of islamification. Yes, the Right (in both senses of the word) should try to unite against the political traitors. But in the meantime, just joining and voting for a non-leftard patriotic party is a start.

        • StellaSaidSo says

          Aug 21, 2018 at 2:54 am

          Well said, Pamela Preedy. I too am an admirer of AMW. There is hope for the UK yet!

      • chantal says

        Aug 20, 2018 at 8:05 am

        Actually, they should ban all muslims from driving any t ypes of vehicles. After all they are THE OFFENDERS.

    • BC says

      Aug 20, 2018 at 8:44 am

      I am surprised he was not arrested for a ‘hate crime’

  2. No Muzzies Here says

    Aug 19, 2018 at 10:28 am

    The rule about face covering was never intended to stop Muslims from entering the bank with their faces covered. It was made to harass non-Muslims who would dare intrude into Muslim territory.

    How foolish of him to actually think that a non-Muslim might actually have equal rights under the law! NO! You don’t!

  3. Gary says

    Aug 19, 2018 at 10:36 am

    Paul Golding telling the truth about Islam and the silence from its followers about muslim terrorist attacks.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RqJLqLFlNM

  4. Dapto says

    Aug 19, 2018 at 10:38 am

    Everyone male, female and transgenders should all start wearing niqabs or such apparel, this will make a joke of the surveillance society.

    • Renate says

      Aug 19, 2018 at 10:40 am

      Good idea!

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Aug 19, 2018 at 11:14 am

      You will enjoy this, Dapto!

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 20, 2018 at 11:35 pm

      That would just normalize Shari’ah. I’m afraid that is not the wisest idea.

  5. Renate says

    Aug 19, 2018 at 10:38 am

    Muslimas don’t need face coverings in Western Liberal Democracies. Men in these countries are not that depraved that they’re going to sexually assault women just because they can see her face or a bit of skin. Men in Western Liberal Democracies have something called “self respect”. They’re just not that desperate.

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Aug 19, 2018 at 11:03 am

      Western men have something called SELF-CONTROL, which is a completely foreign notion to Muslim men. If Muslim men were required to control their own behaviour, they would quickly lose control of Muslim women. Without a woman to blame for everything, their pathetic inadequacy and immaturity would be immediately obvious.

      • Carol the 1st says

        Aug 21, 2018 at 10:10 am

        Great comment, Stella. These niqab’d men are daring to make a very uncomfortable point and many of them look to be in their sixties. This video also reveals the short fuse of the “religiously-inspired” bully boy attacking them.

        BTW it seems many of the MEN in Iran are also starting to stick up for the non-cloistering of their poor un-burly women. I wonder how females can better support such men? – What was it again that that slave Jewess did to a certain big dunce?

        We likely may have to accept the hijab indefinitely as a token (so long as we keep calling supremacist Islam a ‘religions), but ludicrously obscuring garb (apart from its philosophical offence) should be unacceptable out in common areas.

        If some people take their sense of uniformity (I won’t call it ‘holiness’) so seriously, well that should be THEIR problem and not ours.

        Another BTW – that US baker (in California I think) is being supported by the courts regarding his Christian values (he will sell plain cakes etc. but refuses to use his artistry to decorate them if he is offended by the values depicted) . The court has said that he is being harassed over and over again and it must stop. Naturally another attack upon him has been waged.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 20, 2018 at 11:48 pm

      Muslim men rape unveiled women in the West as well as in Dar-al-Islam. That is a major reason why Muslims do not belong in the civilized West.

  6. Emilie Green says

    Aug 19, 2018 at 10:53 am

    “Let’s see what the Mrs. says.”

    I’m hopeful that the Mrs. will come around and see the value of this sort of civil resistance that the elite is stuffing down the throats of the forgotten people, the people who work and make things operate. Good for what you have done. It takes a leader to lead by example. There are 000s out there who think as you/I do but aren’t able or willing to take an initiative. But when they see you lead by example more and more become willing to follow your lead.

    It’s been wisely stated, “We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.” Benjamin Franklin

    • Carolyne says

      Aug 20, 2018 at 10:13 am

      Another wise saying, this one from Patrick Henry is, “Is life so sweet or peace so dear that it may be purchased at the price of bonds and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”

      Our forefathers knew that we were facing the loss of our country if we did not agree to “Hang together”. We are now facings similar danger. We must gather our strength and get rid of the barbarians.

  7. somehistory says

    Aug 19, 2018 at 11:05 am

    A non-moslim such as he, could say it is a “religious” issue in that the word is used as an excuse to brandish the weapon of soft warfare, soft jihad.
    And… he has a right to protest the use of religion as a means to take over all of mankind and turn everyone into slaves for satan.

    We all have the right to resist. If someone comes at another with a knife…it is allowable to use a knife in defense. If someone has a gun, the intended victim has the right to protect with a gun.

    These moslims….both male and female…are using the face coverings as weapons of war. If one wishes to protest being made a victim of this war, then that one has a right to cover the face.

    • simpleton1 says

      Aug 21, 2018 at 5:55 am

      A good set of “safety glasses” or set of sunnies.

      Simply not only not showing flesh, but for safety & health reasons, taking all reasonable precautions against acid attacks that has become ” a part of life living in a big city”

      Sadiq Aman Khan, the mayor of London should be proud that a citizen shows such initiative in being careful in “this day and age”. 🙂

      I like the concept of an earlier poster, saying that on a given day, so that numbers would be effective to do such similiar or burka wearing ideas.

      • simpleton1 says

        Aug 21, 2018 at 5:56 am

        Should be
        Plus a good set of “sunnies” or safety glasses 🙂

        • Carol the 1st says

          Aug 21, 2018 at 10:22 am

          Most amusing to picture! What next from the kuffar!

        • Carol the 1st says

          Aug 21, 2018 at 10:39 am

          I just came up with an idea! When they try to arrest a niqab’d or burqa’d man, then such fellow should arrange a big pow wow with the press (and anyone who has ears to hear) and bemoan the fact that you and your partner have been seriously considering becoming muslim and have merely been “experimenting to see how it fits”.

          Tell them that one of your main hesitations however is that you would be subjected to the risk of “sacralized MURDER” if you ever changed your mind and decided to rescind your commitment.

  8. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Aug 19, 2018 at 11:25 am

    [1] Why is the image left-right reversed?

    [2] The man was not “tackled by the manageress”, unless “tackle” means something different in British English from what it means in American football.

    • carpediadem says

      Aug 19, 2018 at 11:45 am

      “Tackled” means “confronted verbally” in Brit English as well as the football usage.,

    • somehistory says

      Aug 19, 2018 at 12:05 pm

      Also, confronting, as in “tackling’ a problem. she saw his face covering as a problem.

    • Twat says

      Aug 19, 2018 at 12:47 pm

      Happens when you swap the camera around on an iPhone.

    • isaac says

      Aug 19, 2018 at 9:40 pm

      shut up twat

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 20, 2018 at 11:49 pm

        I see the ugly “isaac” is back.

  9. Crusades Were Right says

    Aug 19, 2018 at 12:46 pm

    His two mistakes:

    * not applying shoe polish to the bits of his flesh that were still visible

    * not insisting that they address him as “Ms.”

    ; ¬)

    • trisha says

      Aug 20, 2018 at 5:00 am

      Well done. Further refinement next time. Wear a more niqab type mask rather than a balaclava and when challenged say you ‘identify’ as a woman and are a ‘trans’ Muslim.

  10. Crusades Were Right says

    Aug 19, 2018 at 12:51 pm

    Apparently, a non-Muslim Englishman has less rights than a Muslim woman.

    Feminists, anti-racists, BBC, Guardian…

    …WHERE ARE YOU??? “EQUALITY”, ANYONE???

  11. No Fear says

    Aug 19, 2018 at 8:01 pm

    If I was him I would lodge a complaint to the bank. The bank manager suggested he was “having a laugh”. If that was said to a muslim with a burka it would be RACISM! Put in a “racism” complaint dude.

    • Carol the 1st says

      Aug 21, 2018 at 11:49 am

      Ms. muslim should inform the bank manager that *only muslims proper are allowed to have a laugh” – and it must be “up their sleeve” and accompanied by a disapproving frown for all unsubdued life forms.

  12. Coram Deo says

    Aug 20, 2018 at 11:00 am

    Is it absolutely necessary to fit the ‘f’ word in to every article, documentary or story these days.
    Simply reducing your audience. Would have thought conservatives would have learned that by now and know better.

  13. Mo says

    Aug 20, 2018 at 2:01 pm

    His wife should be proud of him! Thank God for a man with courage, who is standing up for basic, sane practices!

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 20, 2018 at 11:51 pm

      +1

    • Carol the 1st says

      Aug 21, 2018 at 12:13 pm

      When there’s clear INSANITY OUT ON THE STREETS rather than get into an actual war it might be worth a try (by the bolder ones among us) to DROP INHIBITIONS and use blatant humor to confront it with mirroring behaviour.
      It would make for some really funny KEYSTONE COPS videos!!

  14. gravenimage says

    Aug 20, 2018 at 11:24 pm

    Video from UK: When a man covers his face and enters a bank
    …………………

    Kudos to Michael for challenging this insanity.

  15. Mary says

    Aug 21, 2018 at 11:16 am

    Just a thought a white man could wear a burqa and rob a bank and no one would be able to identify him. If he were caught he could claim the Quran says it is ok.

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