Building Barriers in Britain

Does Aishah Azmi go to school with an accompanying mahram? If not, isn`t she violating Islamic law?

Where is the Taliban when you need them? The Taliban would be out there with stout sticks beating women who dared to step out of their homes without a mehram.

Man, the British government is stupid, not for allowing multiculturalism but for not taking it to the fullest extent.

Where are the Paki-bashing youth of Britain? Why aren`t they out in force raping Aishah Azmi and other veiled women? Aishah will have to bring in four Muslim males to testify to the act of penetration.... no DNA tests for you, beatch! And if she can`t find those four Muslim male witnesses, she needs to be stoned to death for adultery.

good to see an article from a normal British Muslim calling his own spade a spade -- there is afterall light at the end of dark Islamist tunnel....that stupid Aisha Azmi should be made to aplogize to those school kids for scaring the hell out of them in that Halloween outfit on a normal non Halloween day.

there is another meateahead in Australia called Hilaly calling non Hijabi women `uncovered meat` -- what a stupid asshole and he is an Imam of a masjid -- good that the mosque suspended him for 3 months for insulting Australian womanhood in such a crass language.

Well good to see that the taming of the Islamist shrew has begun....

Nice article, and to the point. The way it is handled by the Islamic Organizations is pathatic. In my opinion there are three points in this controversy.

First one is the question of personal choice. I am in favour of the personal freedom in this regard. If a women wants to veil herself, let it be her choice.

Second one is its link to Islam. Now that is where ignorance kicks in and poeple start to equate the veiling of face with requirements of Islam. There is no requirement in Islam that makes the women necessary to veil her face.

Third Point is the point of occupational requirement. Every sane person knows that teaching children in veil is hinderance, and the testimony of children proves it, on which the employer of the women in question took the decision to fire her. So, my opinion of freedom of personal choice in point one is subject to the occupational expediency. If her personal freedom is so dear to her, then please stay at home, because in veil children cannot understand you. Another example of personal choice vs. occupational requirement would be the question of drinking while flying. It is the matter of personal choice, whether a pilot drinks or not, but nobody wants to travel in a plane that is flown by a person who is drinking during flight. So, keep your personal choices out of the work area, if they hinders in proper discharge of duties.

I am amazed at the lack of sense and the level of ignorance with which so called Islamic organizations have made issue out of non issue. If they beleive so much in freedom of personal choices, then why women cannot still drive in the saudia, from where they are getting their money. Or on the other hand why they don`t press Mullahs of saudia to allow women in public who are wearing western clothing. Please do not be hypocrate and be a true muslim, as muslim can never be hypocrate.

Following the Iraq war the ruling Labour government can no longer rely on the Muslim vote


So that`s their number 1 issue: Iraq? Not their being left behind in most social measures..education, poverty etc etc.


It is the extremist views of those who cover their faces that cannot be tolerated in a free liberal society. They put on the pretence of challenging our Western society but try and engage in a conversation that questions their core beliefs and they soon turn hostile.


well said...Bears repeating...It`s NOT bigotry to expect muslims to tolerate free speech without threats to ``behead people who insult islam``..

Dear Author,

You have identified the Aisha Azim phenomenon as follows:

She is one of a new generation of young veiled Muslim women who are the complete opposite of the expected stereotype of a meek, shy and submissive Muslim female who ventures out rarely. These women are arrogant, hostile and out to deliberately shock and provoke. Their behaviour is calculated to antagonise and draw some sort of a reaction from those around them. This is a group that has developed a pathological hatred for the very society in which they’ve been raised.

Any reasons why it has turned out to be so? And that too particularly in Britain? This sounds like the suffragettes. Shall appreciate your valuable comments as to the whys and the wherefores because it does indeed look like what you`ve described but have not ventured into an in-depth analysis.