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Ireland allows police hijab to prevent Muslims from “becoming marginalised and turning to extremism”

Apr 10, 2019 8:00 am By Robert Spencer

This is unlikely to work, as Muslims don’t wage jihad because they’re feeling “marginalized” in Western societies, but such is the prevailing myth. By the time Drew Harris and his colleagues discover that it is a myth, it will likely be too late.

“Headscarves and turbans to be allowed as part of Garda uniform,” Irish Times, April 4, 2019:

Female Muslim gardaí will be permitted to wear headscarves under new rules due to be announced by Garda Commissioner Drew Harris.

Mr Harris has sanctioned alterations to the garda uniform code to allow the incorporation of certain items of clothing relating to religious groups.

Under the new rules, members of the Sikh religion will be permitted to wear turbans and Muslim women will be allowed wear a partial hijab or headscarf.

The burka and the niqab, which are worn by some Muslim women and cover up much more of the body and face, will continue to be prohibited while on duty.

The newly-sanctioned garments will be supplied by the Garda and will come in the standard blue colour to match the rest of the garda uniform.

The move is aimed at increasing the recruitment of ethnic minorities into the force. According to figures released last year by the Garda Representative Association, just 0.4 per cent of gardaí, or one in 240, come from an ethnic minority compared to six per cent in the UK.

The Irish population is made up of 82.2 per cent “white Irish” with the remainder coming from various ethnic minorities, according to the most recent census.

The association called the lack of diversity “a ticking time bomb” and said more recruitment is required to better reflect the Irish population and to prevent minority communities from becoming marginalised and turning to extremism.

There are about 100 gardaí and reserve gardaí from non-Irish backgrounds. The two non-Irish nationalities with the highest Garda representation are Chinese and Polish. It is not know how many gardaí, if any, are Muslim or Sikh.

Mr Harris’ decision follows the lead of many UK and US police forces in allowing certain head coverings aside from the standard issue hat….

“In order to encourage candidates from minority communities, An Garda Síochána will consider alterations to the Garda uniform to take account of religious and ethnic requirements subject to operational, and health and safety obligations,” the force said in a statement.

“For example, An Garda Síochána is to allow the wearing of the turban for members of the Sikh community and the hijab for members of the Muslim community. An Garda Síochána has identified such matters as a major barrier to some people considering becoming a Garda member.”

Mr Harris added: “We hope that this will encourage people from minority communities to join An Garda Síochána. We want to demonstrate to them that An Garda Síochána is an inclusive employer that is serious about becoming more diverse.”

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  1. Buraq says

    Apr 10, 2019 at 8:08 am

    Or, ……… The Irish have allowed members of the Nazi Party to adorn their clothes with swastikas to prevent them from feeling marginalized and therefore prone to extremist rhetoric about Jew hatred.

    Clowns!

    • mortimer says

      Apr 10, 2019 at 8:59 am

      Yes … The irish police have allowed hard-core Maoists to wear Mao jackets as part of their uniform so that they will not feel frustrated, become radicalised and then turn to creating a COMMUNIST REVOLUTION in Ireland.

  2. No Muzzies Here says

    Apr 10, 2019 at 8:30 am

    The effect of this will be to introduce a little Sharia into the police. That will result in disaster, since Sharia is 100% completely in opposition with the laws of a once-civilized country like Ireland.

  3. Hari Singh says

    Apr 10, 2019 at 10:38 am

    Strange as a few years ago an Irish born Sikh was dismissed from the Irish National police force ( Gardai) for wearing his turban. The Cabinet minister in charge said he should assimilate to Irish ways despite the police uniform being no different than British police uniforms maintaining a colonial tradition holdover from the former British rulers of Ireland.

  4. James Lincoln says

    Apr 10, 2019 at 10:51 am

    According to Garda Commissioner Drew Harris:

    “Under the new rules, members of the Sikh religion will be permitted to wear turbans and Muslim women will be allowed wear a partial hijab or headscarf.”

    The problem is, he is not separately recognizing the unique threat that Islam poses – all religions have equal value, etc.

  5. FYI says

    Apr 10, 2019 at 11:30 am

    While they are at it,why not allow terrorists to join the Irish Police:let them wear their balaclavas too in order to respect their cultural values, all in the name of Diversity,Inclusiveness and Multicultural Enrichment.

    The islamification project for Ireland is certainly on course and will be a “ticking time bomb” someday soon,especially given the spiritual vacuum created by a smug and complacent Irish catholic Church hierarchy which has created ideal ground for the Dawa deceivers to gain converts to the mohammedan Cult

    Already isis operatives have been found in Syria with links to Ireland,including one woman convert…

    Tick-tock,Tick-tock…

  6. FYI says

    Apr 10, 2019 at 11:49 am

    If the Irish police allow hijabs on the basis that it wishes to respect the right of the muslima to wear her headgear for religious reasons then surely…

    …….they must allow balaclavas to be worn by any prospective paramilitaries thinking of joining them{be they IRA Republican or Union-jack waving UVF loyalists}on the basis that it wishes to respect the right of paramilitaries to wear headgear for non-religious reasons.

    I’d love to see some balaclava-wearing lads turn up at the Irish police HQ:surely there cannot be any objection to wearing a head covering?That would be DISCRIMINATION right?

    And the politically correct police don’t want to be seen to be intolerant…

    If it is allowed for the muslimas to wear hijabs then surely it must be allowed for the paramilitary-minded native citizens to wear balaclavas.

  7. ticky sibanda says

    Apr 10, 2019 at 6:30 pm

    I dont think this goes far enough. Surely a blue chador for the Islamic conservatives should be in order here. Hijabis are just worn by liberals who really dont care a fig about Islam. If they really want to make fundamentalist Muslims feel at home a chador is a must. For the male, beards preferably dyed red, a blue Isis style uniform, a sword, and not forgetting maybe designer sandals to set the right PC tone. All of this can be worn with a nice big Garda (Irish police) cap on top. Such a tactic would no doubt stop all terrorist attacks and once Sharia was introduced you just would not have an Islamic problem. Its nice to see the Irish bending over frontwards and saying “cead mile failte” (a hundred thousand welcomes) to these cultural enrichers.

  8. ntesdorf says

    Apr 10, 2019 at 6:44 pm

    The turbans will not be a problem but the hijabs will. This is the nature of Sikhism and of Islam. A few police niqabs which enrich the efftect.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 10, 2019 at 8:40 pm

      +1

  9. Bacherbazistan says

    Apr 10, 2019 at 8:11 pm

    Meanwhile Irish police allow jihadis use Wicklow hills as a training ground.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 10, 2019 at 8:44 pm

      Very disturbing.

  10. Michael Garant says

    Apr 10, 2019 at 8:13 pm

    ”The association called the lack of diversity “a ticking time bomb” and said more recruitment is required to better reflect the Irish population and to prevent minority communities from becoming marginalised and turning to extremism”

    Stupid, stupid. Would it not therefore be wiser to simply not permit these people into the country? But then again that would be too simple…….so let’s cave in to their demands and why not be ahead of them and give into what they haven’t even yet asked,,,,,knowing they eventually will….or they will become violent and dangerous. Got to love that mindset.

  11. gravenimage says

    Apr 10, 2019 at 8:23 pm

    Ireland allows police hijab to prevent Muslims from “becoming marginalised and turning to extremism”
    …………………

    In other words, if you don’t give Muslims power–including deadly power–over Infidels then they will run amok and murder Infidels.

    Let’s see how that works out..

  12. Lydia Church says

    Apr 10, 2019 at 8:47 pm

    Anyone who’s been around a while knows how this pattern continues.

    Now: Allowed but optional.
    Later: Mandatory.

  13. Dave Butler says

    Apr 11, 2019 at 4:25 am

    I live in Ireland.
    Never realised that the Gardaí is an equal opportunity employer!
    I thought it was a police service that only employed tall physically fit people.
    Initiates used to take an oath to serve the Irish law.

    Trouble is, it’s riddled with freemasons who take other oaths. Masonic “law” trumps irish law, just as allah’s law is obviously superior to any man made law… according to ALL real muslims.

    Anyone who is compromised is such ways is not fit to serve on any police force, judiciary or government. Since they are unable to be evenhanded, and are required to favour the interests of their respective cults.

    The pretexts and justifications given are utterly pathetic. An orthodox muslima would not be allowed to work closely with Kufir men, work with police dogs, physically arrest muslims or many other duties that the job may require, so it is pointless to make special allowances for headwear. Muslims have much bigger issues which preclude them from service.

    The power elite are clearly pushing and facilitating islam.
    Why?
    What do they stand to gain?

  14. jayell says

    Apr 11, 2019 at 9:54 am

    As totalitarian supremacists, Muslims seek to marginalise others who do not follow their ‘faith’. The trouble is that they are the minority seeking to ‘marginalise’ the majority in the West at the moment, so it creates an illusion that they are the ones being excluded when they’ve actually deliberately excluded themselves. Naturally, this gives them ammunition for their usual ‘victim-status’ charade, which then becomes a lever for them to force their ideology onto their hosts and achieve dominance via the back door – and you can see it happening in this case. And it will only become more dire as their numbers increase.

  15. Nelson W. Lentz says

    Apr 11, 2019 at 11:40 am

    As Muhammad said, “I have been made victorious with terror” (Qur’an 8:39).
    Obviously the Irish, like many other western nations, have allowed themselves to be conditioned by the Muslims (think Pavlov’s reflex conditioning) to fear Muslim terrorism so much that they will surrender to any of the Muslims’ demands to avoid making them angry.

  16. OLD GUY says

    Apr 11, 2019 at 7:01 pm

    Wake up Ireland your treading in deep water when you bow to the Islam leaders.

    • dobren says

      Apr 14, 2019 at 5:46 pm

      I refer readers to the ‘82.2 per cent “white Irish”’ part of this article. For inclusion, my people no longer officially exist (since the 2006 Census), reduced to the white component of a made-up nationality to which anyone can belong. Hundreds of thousands of actual Irish emigrated when we were required to pay the gambling debts of Franco-German firms (thanks in part to Obama’s Treasury man, Mr. Geithner I believe). Thousands of actual Irish have been reduced to homelessness as a direct consequence of EU economic policies, while colonies of foreigners are Planted in every city, town, village, and hamlet, many given houses (they’ll never tell us what percentage). We were ordered to steal over 20 billion dollars of American taxes (the Apple case) when the EU Commission finished an ultra-vires investigation twisting EU competition law to extend EU law over taxation (prior to that case, which reinterpreted the rules until it got the desired result, taxation was the sole competence of the Member States). Our votes are re-run until we provide the right answer and our sovereignty is undermined at every opportunity.

      I use these examples of the anti-Irish policies enacted for the EU and its evil dream of empire to display how the Irish ruling class does not care about the Irish people, nor if a policy serves us as long as it furthers the EU’s agenda. They know how much treason they’ve committed, they know how much they’re going to commit for their dreams of aristocracy, and they know our loyalty to their traitor parties is no longer guaranteed. They literally want to replace us with an electorate more willing to vote for them, which has the added bonus of satisfying the EU’s need to eradicate ethnic nations as a direct threat to the EU’s absolute and eternal dominion over Europe. If we didn’t have pale skin, there would be thousands of prosecutions for this truly institutional and systemic racism against us.
      They certainly don’t care about the dangers Islam or its followers pose for us, whether it be 100,000 rapes or
      open rebellion over delusions of sovereignty.

      Forgive my rant, but this police hijab thing is delusional PR nonsense that will do nothing but remind us of our second class status in our own homeland, alongside with every other imperial policy. The police aren’t the main problem, the EU and its aristocracy are, along with that disgrace of a court, the ECHR.
      I personally don’t believe many Muslims would join the police here. They’ll use our funds for third level education, welfare benefits and other forms of jizya, but serving us in that way? Not likely.

      The best hope for Europe is to dissolve that filthy court, slowly dismantle the abomination that is the EU’s legal order, outlaw Islam and make Muslims feel themselves subdued (as in not supreme in any way, rather than Islam’s perverse interpretation of that phrase) so that most migrate back to wherever, hopefully before the continent is wracked by Muslim rebellions.
      Ireland’s Muslim population, of more than 70,000, is largely here because of Merkel’s invitation and the EU’s redistribution (there were less than 4,000 when I was young). With the EU’s wings soon to be clipped by the ‘populists’ (the anti-empire, pro-democracy electorates) of Europe this year, what has been done can be mostly undone.

  17. brane pilot says

    Apr 11, 2019 at 10:11 pm

    You are a Christian, or Yazidi refugee who has escaped genocide and being shot in front of a pit. One of the lucky few. You managed to emigrate to a Western country.
    You are in your car and you get pulled over by the police.
    Two Muslim police, to be exact, in full Muslim costume. And you recognize one of them…
    That would be like a Jew in 1946 being pulled over by cops wearing Nazi armbands.
    Even dystopian science fiction writers cannot keep up with the dark idiocy that is now the British Isles.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 11, 2019 at 10:31 pm

      Formerly enslaved Y*have* seen those who enslaved them walking around free in Western countries–deeply disturbing. How much more terrifying to find them in uniform? This is hardly impossible.

  18. Marigold says

    Apr 12, 2019 at 4:03 am

    It doesn’t surprise me in the least what the Irish do .Many Irish abandoned their Christian faith when the Celtic Tiger took over.Consequently they will be easy meat as converts to Islam.I forget who said it but once people stop believing in God they will believe in anything and to me Islam’s God is anything .He certainly isn’t the same Father God Christians worship.

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