Why does the UK not ban the burqa like other countries have done?
Banning the burqa would be an admission that multiculturalism is a total failure, everyone knows it but few will admit it, for fear of upsetting Muslim “sensitivities” and being called intolerant or racist.
David Cameron as prime minister was the first to publicly criticise multiculturalism followed by several other European leaders including Angela Merkel. Cameron was a disaster as prime minister.
Muslim paedophile rape and torture gangs in the UK were protected by national politicians, local councillors, social workers and police who were more concerned with supporting the pro multicultural neo-Marxist propaganda than caring for and protecting the thousands of British child victims of the Muslim rape gangs.
They actually blamed the thousands of child victims who were raped and tortured several times each day, hired out and sold for other Muslim men to abuse them, drug, rape, torture and even killed them.
Allowing unrestricted immigration of people who live parallel lives within insular communities is dangerous, the government and police don’t wish to intrude because they fear stirring up Islamic extremism.
The burqa is the very least of this country’s problems in terms of disagreeable cultural habits, it a political statement, a way for extremists en mass to mark territory, it’s designed to intimidate non Muslims and also other Muslims with differing views.
It should be remembered that burqa and also hijab are cultural (and political) adornments, not a religious obligation, their is no Quran text which requires Muslim women to cover their hair or face.
Hijab for example predates Islam by millennia and was appropriated from women of other cultures and faiths.
It is only in the past 50 years that such a high proportion of Muslim women have been shamed (or even forced) to wear hijab or burqa with the Wahhabi revival from just three centuries past which restricted women’s lives even more.
The Equality Act 2010 allows for every person to express their religious belief as they wish, however bizarre, no religious text or reference is required as justification, if someone says they require hijab or burqa as religious observance that is accepted in law.
Of course many women and girls today may choose to wear textiles in vogue and are happy to do so, however there is a significant cohort who are shamed or even coerced with threats of violence into covering their hair/face, they suffer in silence for fear of being ostracised within their insular communities.
A ban would deny some women the right to dress as they please whilst at the same time freeing victims of oppression from being dressed in a way that does not please.