YouTube: Ban the Burqa Day – July 18, 2011
(h/t: Iron Burka)
Warning: raw language
Facebook Event: Ban the Burka in Australia
Herald Sun: Fears for riots in national burqa protest
Kye Keating started the movement for the ‘Ban the Burqa Day’ protest. Picture: Craig Borrow Herald SunUPDATE 11.16am: A NATIONAL day of protest demanding the burqa be banned has raised fears it could provoke Cronulla riot-style hysteria.
Almost 14,000 people have signed up for Monday’s “Ban the Burqa Day”, which urges protesters to wear a balaclava or mask.
But Islamic leaders labelled the event racist.
Organiser Kye Keating, 20, instigated the protest with two friends via Facebook after Sydney woman Carnita Matthews used her burqa to quash a jail sentence for deliberately making a false statement to police.
“This event is not aimed at race, it is not aimed at religion,” Mr Keating said.
“It is just aimed at concealing your identity in a public place. If everyone is not allowed to do it, no one should be allowed to do it.”
More on this at Winds of Jihad.