Dutch government backs burqa ban

[Fengzi]

I was in a K-Mart a while back and saw a woman in a full Afghan style burqa. You know, the kind where even the eyes are covered by a mesh like piece of cloth they can kind-of see through. Call me paranoid but it made me kind of nervous.

I mean shit, this is the San Francisco Area, nobody's gonna stone them if they show a little skin. Shit, there was a guy roaming Berkely a while back totally naked and all anyone said was "there's no law against it". It just made me think, here they are in the U.S. and they still wear that thing. They've got to be pretty hard core Muslim's. Anyone that hard core, that they'd still wear it here, most likley isn't too keen on our way of life.

Now I know that most Muslims are good people. The folks who lived next to my parents for as long as I can remember are Muslims and some of the nicest people I've ever met. But still, when I a woman roaming K-Mart in a full burqa I get as far away as possible. Let's just call it an aversion to high explosives.

[jamstigator]

Well, speaking for the National Organization for Women, we're proud of the way women are making inroads into the suicide bombing career path!

[Fengzi]

So what is heaven like for a female suicide bomber? Do they get 70 male virgins Doesn't sound like paradise for any women I know.

[graymatter]

Hmmmmm... Maybe Suicide Bombing With the Stars

[Bong30]

Jewel heists target Asians
One recent robbery included a male thief disguised in a head-to-toe burqa
Nov. 21, 2006. 10:14 AM
BETSY POWELL AND JOHN DUNCANSON
STAFF REPORTERS


Abdul Rasheed Khalid was alone in his Brampton jewellery store filling the display cases with yellow gold rings and necklaces when two people, one wearing a head-to-toe black burqa, appeared outside his locked door.

"Salamu alaikum," the 58-year-old store owner said after pushing the entry buzzer, believing them to be a Muslim couple. There was no reply, and seconds later the pair â?? both males â?? forced him at gunpoint to the back office where he was bound with duct tape and hit several times. Then his store was cleaned out.

"Keep quiet, keep quiet, close your eyes," they said, while emptying the red velvet trays into duffel bags carried by an accomplice. Khalid caught a glimpse of the crooks. He thinks they were Pakistani or Indian.

Last Friday's daylight robbery has other South Asian jewellers across the GTA on edge, fearful they'll be next. The thieves didn't seem to care that Zaibi Jewellers is in the same strip mall as a storefront Peel Region police station at McLaughlin Rd. and Ray Lawson Blvd.

That unease is reflected by police, who say that robberies are up overall in Peel but there has been a particular spike in the number of South Asian jewellery heists. Det. Sgt. Bruce Chapman, who runs the Peel force's central robbery unit, said police are "doing everything we can to solve each and every one" of the robberies.

It's so bad that robbers, brazenly posing as police officers, hit two other stores last month, prompting Peel police to form a task force.

"They're all scared now," said Abdul Gheffar Shehzad, who provides jewellers with their wares. He and others from the industry gathered in Khalid's now-closed shop yesterday. They sat amid the empty glass displays behind a door that will be closed indefinitely.

Citing several reasons, they say they are worried they are being targeted by well-organized bandits, possibly with ties to gangs. It's not known how many businesses have been robbed, but the jewellers said at least a half-dozen retailers across the GTA have been victimized, including several businesses in Toronto's Gerrard St. India Bazaar.

The owners believe Indian jewellery stores are easy prey because they are often found in outdoor malls without security guards and with wide-open parking lots that allow criminals to make a swift getaway.

"If you go to something like a diamond jewellery store, Peoples' Jewellers for example, they're located inside large malls and it's obviously much harder to attack them versus something outside," said Imran Ahmad, Khalid's son-in-law.

Ahmad also points the finger at disaffected South Asian youth who have inside knowledge about the business dealings of the community.

"The ability to make a quick buck is very attractive to them," he said. "The first generation that came here are working hard while the second generation, partially, are coming into the crime scene."

Pakhar Jhuty said he closed shop about a year ago because he was "fed up" with the robberies and figured it was a matter of time before he got hit again. He was robbed four years ago, but the thugs got away with little.

At Nu Deep jewellers on Gore Rd. in Brampton, two suspects in police uniforms buzzed to get into the shop. The man-woman team handcuffed the victim and told him he was under arrest. The victim was beaten with a pistol, taken to the bathroom and tied up. The thieves stole jewellery and cash.

A year earlier, a 45-year-old woman was working at the Dhesi Jewelers on Airport Rd. when two people â?? one wearing a police uniform â?? sounded the front buzzer. They said they were conducting a police investigation before forcing her to the basement. When she came up, she discovered her store had been ransacked.

Two weeks ago, three people were arrested for both robberies.

But that's small comfort to the jewellers who are not convinced police are doing enough to catch the criminals and recover their jewellery. Khalid estimates he has lost $1 million and doesn't have insurance because it's difficult to get coverage in his type of business.

His son-in-law says, if police can't crack a case quickly, thieves are "going to melt all the gold into something that unrecognizable and sell it."

In the meantime, some jewellers have taken to varying their hours to throw off would-be thieves conducting surveillance.

Additional articles by Betsy Powell

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[MastaChronic]

Since you only understand pictures and not articles let me spell it out for ya.

Have a good one!:thumbsup:

omfgroflolmao
p4b you crack me up, apples man, freakin apples!

[Breukelen advocaat]

A burka ban is a step in the right direction


By Hans Klimstra, Dundas
The Hamilton Spectator(Nov 25, 2006)

Re: 'Dutch burka ban seems rooted in intolerance' (Letter, Nov. 23)

It is obvious the letter writer knows little about the Dutch. The Dutch nation is about the most tolerant in the world with its lax laws regarding drug use, etc.

The Dutch are, however, pragmatic about terrorism and war, having endured six years of subjugation during the Second World War. They realize that freedom can be very costly. People need to realize there are limits to freedom of expression, stopping short when other persons' liberties are endangered: yelling fire in a theatre as a hoax, flailing your arms until they contact another person, using marijuana as a sacrament, wearing a T-shirt with racial slurs, and yes, dressing in a manner that might be construed as being a danger to the public.

We are living in difficult times and need co-operation from all persons, regardless of religion and creed, to pull together to lift the tensions in the world. A burka ban would be one small step in that direction.

http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NAS...=1112876262536

[Bong30]

Seams easy Huh BA?


Would it help women In Isalm If they were outlawed? No, im sure.

[Breukelen advocaat]

Seams easy Huh BA?
Would it help women In Isalm If they were outlawed? No, im sure.

Men in Islamic societies are beyond help. They can't trust their own women to go out without covering their faces? These people have some serious fucking problems, sexually and otherwise, and it's clear why their most fanatical fringes take advantage of the insanity that their tribes are living each and every day.

The women aren't exactly blameless for this shit, either. They go along with it, teach it to their offspring, and refuse to change.

Since they're not at the point of mandatory burka-wearing, in most of their communities, and the majority do not want it, it's time to nip it in the bud before the epidemic of this religion gets even worse.

There's one woman in my neighborhood that wears a complete burka at all times - I only see her sometimes on the subway in the morning. She was once accompanied by her husband, a loudmouth with his own Muslim costume, who seemed like an American guy that converted in jail.


Have a good one!

[roly mo]

Hi

Here in the UK, if you go into any bank or financial institution it says quite clearly at the entrance you have to remove your hood or crash helmet if your a biker (legal requirement to wear one in UK). Which for obvious reasons is so that the security cameras can see you.

So why is it acceptable for these face hiding muslims to do what they want? A teacher this week was sacked for refusing to remove her face veil, now shes claiming she was unfairly sacked even though it was the children she was teaching that asked her to remove it in the 1st place.

I think we should start looking for another suitable planet and ship all the muslims out and they can do what they want then, to who they want on their own rock and stop ramming their religion down our throats.

Religion sucks, how many people have died because of religion?

Also if voting changed anything it would be made illegal!

RIP the poor russion guy poisoned this week by Putins heavies.

Said my bit, going to get blasted I know, but its only my opinion.

Roly Mo aka Maureen