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Algeria: MP calls burqa ban in public sector “a declared war on Islam”

Oct 25, 2018 1:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

Algerian authorities began a ban on niqab in public workplaces across the country. And, as expected, this decision was denounced by the Imams’ Mosques Union, although a few number of women wear the niqab in Algeria and often work at municipal headquarters in rural areas.

The burqa is a symbol of female oppression and is broadly supported by Islamic supremacists of all stripes. It has been banned in China, Tajikistan, Morocco, Latvia, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville, Gabon, Chad, Austria, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, Bulgaria, and France. It emerged yesterday that the UN Human Rights Committee absurdly accused France of violating the human rights of “two Muslimas by fining them for wearing niqab.”

In the case of the Chad burqa ban, two Boko Haram suicide bomb attacks killed 23 people in 2015, and the country’s Prime Minister Kalzeube Pahimi Deubet condemned the use of the burqa as “camouflage,” ruling that all burqas on sale in markets must be burned.

Algerian Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia stated that civil servants need to “observe the rules and requirements of security and communication within their department, which impose their systematic and permanent physical identification.” No “racism” or “Islamophobia” in that logical statement. It’s rather simple to comprehend. However:

MP Masoud Amrawi expressed his great surprise at the issuance of such instructions. He considered the new law “a declared war on Islam.”

“Algeria: Niqab Ban in Public Sector Sparks Controversy,”  Asharq Al-Awsat, October 20, 2018:

Under the decision of Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia announced Thursday, Algerian authorities began a ban on niqab in public workplaces across the country. And, as expected, this decision was denounced by the Imams’ Mosques Union, although a few number of women wear the niqab in Algeria and often work at municipal headquarters in rural areas.

In a letter sent to ministers and regional governors on Thursday, Ouyahia said the need for identification had prompted the move.

Civil servants, he wrote, needed to “observe the rules and requirements of security and communication within their department, which impose their systematic and permanent physical identification”.

“It should be recalled that, given their public service missions, public officials and public servants are subject to specific legal and statutory obligations,” the Prime Minister said in a circular.

Mayor of Khemis Miliana, 120 km west of the capital, told Asharq Al-Awsat that the ban on the niqab was for security reasons as reported by the government, and it “does not represent a restriction on freedoms.” He pointed out that there is no niqab-wearing woman working in the Khemis Miliana municipality.

Islamist MP Masoud Amrawi expressed his great surprise at the issuance of such instructions. He considered the new law “a declared war on Islam”.

Amrawi noted that similar instructions have been issued prohibiting girls from wearing headscarves during official exams on the grounds that it is a “means for cheating”.

Jalul Hajimi, head of the Imams’ union, said that the government is requested to stop restricting personal freedoms because this could get the society into a cycle of strife and ostracism. He also called on the government to ban indecent dressing at public institutions for what they cause of “disintegration of the values of Algerian society”……

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  1. CogitoErgoSum says

    Oct 25, 2018 at 1:41 pm

    I would call the burka a sign of the war that has been declared by Islam upon all “infidels.” The purpose of the burka, niqab and hijab is to let Muslim men know who should be left unharmed and who is fair game for molestation and rape. it’s clearly a way for Muslim men to know who is and who is not to be attacked in their war against the Infidel. Infidels did not come up with this idea — the Muslims did and it’s called Jihad.

    • mortimer says

      Oct 25, 2018 at 1:58 pm

      Cogito CORRECTO! The Islamic veil is a clear DECLARATION OF WAR and an INCENTIVE TO RAPE DIRTY KAFIRS … who are not “PROTECTED”.

      KAFIRS have no ‘honor’ so raping them is ok.

      • Lydia Church says

        Oct 25, 2018 at 5:21 pm

        They have already declared war on us, so this then is merely self defense and should not come as a shock!

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 25, 2018 at 6:49 pm

      +1

    • J D S says

      Oct 26, 2018 at 5:53 am

      There’s those scary halloween costumes again.

      • Carol the 1st says

        Oct 27, 2018 at 10:36 pm

        Those two women look like they’ve been caught in one of our torrential northern rainfalls. Will a dry new burqa and changing room be awaiting them at their place of employment? Are black garbage bags being offered as an impromptu, stylish accoutrement? And BTW can they shovel snow in those things? Can they swim in them? Can they run in them? Can they at least scurry back to the house in them?

  2. mortimer says

    Oct 25, 2018 at 1:56 pm

    SO WHAT’S WRONG WITH BANNING THE ULTIMATE SYMBOL OF MISOGYNY and FEMALE SERVITUDE?

    The burka has been banned in France, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Chad, Cameroon, Niger, Congo, Turkey, Switzerland, Denmark, Austria.

    UKIP has long wanted such a ban in the UK. While, in a speech in December last year, Chancellor Angela Merkel called for one in Germany: ”Show your face. The full covering is not permissible and should be banned.”

    Much of NORMATIVE ISLAM is ALREADY BANNED … jizzya, jihad, amputations, beheadings, FGM, discriminatory laws against dirty KAFIRS, Islamic SLAVERY, Islamic discrimination against women …

    So, SHAKE YOUR HEADS, PEOPLE !!! What’s ONE MORE BAN ANYWAY???

    We already BANNED most of Islam.

    • Ewanda says

      Oct 27, 2018 at 2:51 pm

      We are not done until we ban live animal sacrifices to a deity.
      \ Watching such cruelty from a young age – actually any age, serves to desensitize the brain to the horrific actions that we hear done to declared unbelievers. Watching torture changes the pathways in the brain. Eg.-We certainly must block Islamic Somalis from working in slaughter houses which keeps up their desensitization to killing Christians and Jews and apostates and every other non-muslim. Put them to work growing and tending vegetation.

  3. Prabh108 says

    Oct 25, 2018 at 2:09 pm

    Ban burka throughout Sapt Sindhu region asap – i.e. all of Greater Historical India, aka Akhand Bharat. Dhan Vad Modi ji sahib.

  4. Benedict says

    Oct 25, 2018 at 2:37 pm

    I fully sympathizes with a fight against the burqa and niqab in the Muslim world. In the West, however, I suggest they are a justified “divine design” or nemesis designed to expose the hypocrisy in condemning a full-body cloak for women while promoting and allowing vulgar, public nudity for both sexes. I shall spare readers links to pictures and events from all over the Western World that illustrates the latter – they are easily found on YouTube and via search engines.

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      Oct 25, 2018 at 3:35 pm

      I find that here in the United States no one forces me to look at things I do not wish to see. I can always close my eyes, avert my gaze or not watch pornography. Why should my freedom of choice be taken away from me? I think it is my God-given right to choose for myself how to live my own life.

      • Benedict says

        Oct 25, 2018 at 4:15 pm

        See if I can force you to look at this one?:

        https://youtu.be/9xaStuzYnAc

        • CogitoErgoSum says

          Oct 25, 2018 at 4:52 pm

          Ha! I’m on to you. I choose NOT to click on that link.

        • Carol the 1st says

          Oct 27, 2018 at 9:51 pm

          Narcissism and greed will always produce lusty wares for their fan base but too much “repression” seems to produce a distinctly warped and frantic clientele in search of the taboo:

          https://www.humortimes.com/31730/google-report-80-porn-searches-muslims/

    • NigelGFF says

      Oct 25, 2018 at 3:53 pm

      Specious antithetical equivalence twaddle, my arse – too rude perhaps. BTW I choose to not look for ‘public nudity’.

      • Benedict says

        Oct 25, 2018 at 4:34 pm

        It’s the ideology behind it that bothers me:
        http://www.dennisprager.com/whats-wrong-with-public-nudity/

        BTW, Muslim women in niqab or burka espouse the same ideology in a more subtle and bigoted way: That men are animals and that Muslim women are not.

        • Carol the 1st says

          Oct 27, 2018 at 10:42 pm

          How daring of them!

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 25, 2018 at 10:33 pm

      Benedict wrote:

      I fully sympathizes with a fight against the burqa and niqab in the Muslim world. In the West, however, I suggest they are a justified “divine design” or nemesis designed to expose the hypocrisy in condemning a full-body cloak for women while promoting and allowing vulgar, public nudity for both sexes.
      ………………..

      Appallingly, Benedict has said before that women being allowed to show their faces in public is “nudity”, and that he encourages immuring Western women in the hideous Niqab:

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/10/un-human-rights-committee-says-france-violated-human-rights-of-two-muslimas-by-fining-them-for-wearing-niqab#comment-2004234

      “…I will delight in seeing Muslim women wearing niqab and will even defend their right to do so and also encourage other women to wear niqab…”

      • Benedict says

        Oct 25, 2018 at 11:01 pm

        Another one of your distortions, G.

        I support Muslim women wearing the burka in the West as a taunting reminder of libertinism and vulgarity gone mad in our culture and part of the world. Living and walking Muslim caricatures that serve a higher purpose, that’s it. But you have to have a sense and taste for irony to see it.

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 25, 2018 at 11:24 pm

          I quoted Benedict’s *own words* here–how it that a distortion? Unless he is now denying that he wrote this?

          And no–Muslim women wearing the Burka in the West is not “a taunting reminder of libertinism and vulgarity gone mad in our culture and part of the world”–in fact, Muslims do not promote the Burqa because Western women are supposedly vulgar for not covering their faces in public–this is, for instance, certainly not the case in Algeria.

          Really, the Burqa *much* predates liberalism in the West–except for women here being able to show their faces.

          The only “higher purpose” the Burqa serves is Muslim supremacism and condoning the rape of unveiled women.

          So sorry I don’t find these horrors “ironic”, as Benedict claims to.

          And–as I noted on the previous thread–the idea that Islam is “modest” is terribly false, in any case. Islam condones pedophilia, forced marriage, polygamy, rape, and sex slavery.

          How are *any* of these things “modest”?

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 26, 2018 at 4:51 pm

          Benedict now appears to be for *child veiling*, as well:

          https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/10/hugh-fitzgerald-mind-the-gap-or-signs-of-sanity-in-france

  5. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Oct 25, 2018 at 2:55 pm

    “‘With Trump’s presidential campaign, things got worse’: Billionaire George Soros’ son Alex suggests that the president and his ‘anti-Semite’ supporters are to blame for bombs being sent to his father’s house”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6313879/George-Soros-son-says-Trumps-campaign-partially-blame-attempted-bomb-attack.html

    That’s right George, I hate your guts. I hate your guts because you made/make billions on the misery of others. And you try to do it from the shadows. And I hate your guts even more because when you get called on it, you use the “antisemitism” card to cover your crimes. What a load of crap! Weren’t you the guy who helped the Nazis round up and confiscate the property of Hungarian Jews?

    And you just made the monumental mistake of putting your son into the spotlight. We’ll be keeping on eye on him; watching out for the same kind of malfeasance. The acorn doesn’t fall too far from the tree.

    • mortimer says

      Oct 25, 2018 at 4:21 pm

      Why would anyone hate George Soros for being Jewish??? The only Jewish thing about Soros is in his DNA, but mentally and philosophically, Soros is a NON-NATIONALIST and ONE-WORLD FANATIC keen on destroying EVERY NATION-STATE INCLUDING ISRAEL.

      So … far from hating his JEWISHNESS, we should rather deplore Soros for his conscious, chosen and deliberate UN-JEWISHNESS and his unfeeling hatred of Israel !

      Soros could do a lot of good for Israel if he THOUGHT JEWISH or identified with Jews in any way, but he doesn’t.

  6. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Oct 25, 2018 at 2:57 pm

    “Civility? New York Times Publishes Trump Assassination Short Story”

    https://www.newswars.com/civility-new-york-times-publishes-trump-assassination-short-story/

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 26, 2018 at 1:58 pm

      Yes–this is just appalling incitement of violence.

  7. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Oct 25, 2018 at 2:59 pm

    A story from seventh century Saudi Arabia:
    “Khashoggi’s son leaves Saudi Arabia as prosecutor says killing was planned”

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/25/jamal-khashoggi-killing-premeditated-says-saudi-prosecutor

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 25, 2018 at 11:27 pm

      Thanks for that link, Flavius.

  8. FYI says

    Oct 25, 2018 at 6:40 pm

    Apparently Sinead O ‘Connor has just revealed that she has converted to islam.

    And has decided to wear the hijab…

    Should we tell her about allah’s unenlightened attitude to women?Mo’s child rape and polygamy and his rapist disciples?Will she some day be tearing up photos of the ayatollah when she finds out?That won’t do!

    So,she decided she wanted to be a catholic priest,put on a collar and now… she’s found allah,the champion deceiver god of islam{k3:54} ,the antisemitic,antichristian {k9:30},misogynistic{k2:282},racist {k2:65}moslem bigot god,a god who reveals he doesn’t even understand Theology in his “perfect” book.A god so linguistically challenged that he can only be spoken to in arabic.
    A god who says a woman’s testimony =HALF of a man’s.

    islam and allah don’t subscribe to feminism,equal rights or gays:I’ll bet sinead doesn’t know that…yet.Oh .and allah HATES Jews.

    So she can find “allah” the god who CURSES Jews and {Christians koran 9:430}but …..she can’t find God!

    She has found the religion of antiChrist:islam.

    “This is the natural conclusion of any intelligent Theologian’s Journey”she says.

    Intelligent?Theologian?Since when….

    islam:{sarc}it always attracts the bright ones..and the seriously disturbed ones..

    {Given all the info out there,including advice from ex-moslems and ex-converts to islam warning people NOT to convert to islam,there will always be idiots who don’t get it.

    If you are a feminist,or gay then you surely MUST now by now,the utter idiocy of converting to islam given islam’s misogyny and homophobia.If you want religion..TRY something else other than islam.Be smart!}

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 25, 2018 at 10:25 pm

      Utter stupidity on her part.

  9. Halal Bacon says

    Oct 25, 2018 at 10:11 pm

    no hibachi, no burka

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