If Muslims (or anyone else for that matter) want to wear Burkha's then let them, I really don't see the harm in it.

Yet the police are doing everything they can to stop "hoodies" as it obscures the face and stop identification. Hmmmmmmmmmmm sounds like the same thing as a burka to me. </playing devils advocate>

I can certainly see an issue there, for example in places such as banks where you are required to remove motorcycle helmets etc, but even if worse comes to worst then surely you'd (or security would be) be more alert if someone's face was obscured, e.g. by a Burkha?

Loads of signs up in shops and office blocks requesting crash helmets to be removed so lets say same applies to Burkas what about employment rules in buildings where such notices are displayed.

Its a potentially tricky question.

Agreed it's a difficult question but then as we already have rules protecting the turban, is this really that much different?

Isnt the turban an integral part of the Sikh religion, whilst the burka isnt. Thus to demand someone to remove a turban would be asking them to go against their religion but to ask some one to uncover there face isnt.

This is UKIP showing that they really belong in the same pigeon hole as the BNP. They offer a very polite, quiet form of xenophobia that plays nicely into the hands of the Daily Mail reading public. I expect more sinister crowd-pleasing statements like this over the next few months.

Farage is an unpleasant little man who depresses me every time he appears on the telly. That he said this is no surprise.

That said, I don't think they should be permitted in the exact same circumstances where a crash helmet isn't. If a woman chooses to cover her identity that way, then she shouldn't go into a bank. It's her choice; simple.

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