Three burqa dudes have robbed a check-cashing establishment, a jewelry store in Fairview Park Mall, and a flea market. Two Muslim males have been arrested; a third remains at large. Blazing Cat Fur has the story.
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Diversity consultant Kathy Shaidle joins Ezra Levant to discuss the recent burka-clad thefts in Kitchener.
(h/t: Gates of Vienna)
A PROLIFIC thief arrested for wearing a balaclava and gloves arrived at court in a burkha to protest his innocence.
Posing for pictures outside Cannock Magistrates Court, Walsall man David Holmes said: “I’m not against the burkha, it’s the principle. Why can I wear this and not a balaclava?
“It’s the same thing. The police only arrested me because of my previous convictions. They are abusing their powers,” he added…
More here.
Another dude of the criminal persuasion wore an Obama mask to rob a Michigan bank. (Insert joke here.)
A Muslim woman told to remove the veil covering her face to pose for a jail mugshot has prompted the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office to revise its policy regarding religious headwear.
Beginning Friday, a person wearing face-covering religious headwear who is being booked into the jail will have two mugshots — one with the coverings on; the other will be taken with the headwear removed from the person’s face.
The second shot will be taken in the presence only of a same-sex guard, be kept in a confidential file, and opened only through judicial order, said Karla Weikal, sheriff’s office spokeswoman.
The same rule applies at security checkpoints at Justice A.A. Birch Criminal Justice Building, Historic Metro-Nashville Courthouse and Davidson County Juvenile Justice Center. If someone wearing a type of religious headwear sets off a metal detector at the entrance, the person will be taken to a private room by a guard of the same sex. There, the person will remove the headdressing and be screened.
While local civil rights and religious leaders Tuesday applauded the revisions, some Middle Tennessee law enforcement officials said the sheriff’s office might be taking things a bit too far.
“…taking things a bit too far”?
Gee, ya think?
“We respect religious rights, but sometimes common sense has to play in here a little bit,” said Wilson County Sheriff Terry Ashe. “I don’t care if it’s Bubba with a cowboy hat or if it’s a religious situation, for everyone’s safety, we’re going to take a mugshot, and when it comes to booking photos, I’m going to have to see who you are.”
The Muslim woman who was told to remove her veils for her booking photo in Davidson County contacted the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee, which started in April negotiating with the sheriff’s office about changes to its religious accommodation policy. That policy took effect in 1998 but is modified each year…
This is perfectly ridiculous.
Nobody in the US has any business wearing facial disguise in public to begin with, much less committing a crime with it on.
In the US or any other non-Muslim nation, facial disguise (the burqa, or the hijab and niqab, or anything else) violates our own social mores. As a way of verifying identity and establishing the level of trust that allows our society to function, we expect that persons of both sexes and all ages go about in public with their faces and heads exposed. Not only the face itself, but also the neck, ears, head shape, and hair, form part of the visual cues that we use to recognize and identify one another.
When we see someone whose face is concealed, other than during a masquerade event or in exceedingly cold weather (uncommon in Tennessee), we wonder whether that person is getting ready to loot a store, rob a bank, throw a bomb, join a lynch mob, or commit other violent crimes. Considering the facial disguises worn by many of the recent rioters in the UK, our mistrust is well founded.
Burqa-wearers claim that their “modesty” is offended by any attempts to get them to doff their facial disguise. That’s hogwash! In our part of the world, modesty is all about not attracting undue attention to oneself. Going around with a bag over one’s head and body is the antithesis of modesty. It is all about confrontation; it is a test to see whether we will back down. One reason why Muslimas wear the burqa in Tennessee is because it puts pressure on non-Muslims. Even the hijab alone, by which I mean just the head/neck scarf, without the niqab (i.e., the face veil), serves as an “in your face” confrontation. The hijab is a visual sign of the wearer’s rejection of the customs and the community ties of native-born Americans and even of the sensibilities of those immigrants who came to the US because they approve of what we stand for (or of what the US once stood for). It is an implied statement that normal American women who do not cover their heads are somehow “immodest.”
If you cannot cope with the idea of your face being exposed in public, then you do not belong in this part of the world. Just go home immediately, take your friends and family with you, and never come back. Or don’t come here in the first place!
The burqa is an unacceptable security risk, even in Muslim countries! There is no way to know who (male, female, criminal, terrorist) or what (contraband, including BOMBS) might be under that burqa. By the time the authorities apprehend the suspect and remove the disguise, it may be too late to prevent a massacre or other major disaster. This is why the burqa is banned in some countries and cities.
Calling the burqa “religious headgear” is a whitewash in and of itself. What kind of “religion” expects teenage girls and adult women go around with bags over their heads? I contend that Islam is not a religion at all, but rather, an enemy, totalitarian, expansionist political ideology that seeks to rid the world of everything but itself. There is no reason why we need to give any totalitarian ideology the First Amendment protection that belongs to the free exercise of religion. In fact, according to the Qur’an, the stated goal of Islam is to encroach upon and destroy our own freedom to reject Islam!
Davidson County’s policy on shari’a law is important because Davidson County exercises jurisdiction over a populous metropolitan area that is also the capital of Tennessee.
According to Wikipedia:
Davidson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of 2010, the population was 626,681. Its county seat is Nashville.[1]
In 1963, the City of Nashville and the Davidson County government merged, so the county government is now known as the “Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County,” or “Metro Nashville” for short.
Nashville is also the capital of Tennessee. The upshot is that decisions that are made in Davidson County will not only affect “Metro Nashville” but also exert influence upon the entire State.
Blog admins 1389 and CzechRebel have been to Nashville. We both vehemently oppose the ongoing Muslim attempts to infiltrate the Southern US and to impose a parallel system of shari’a law upon it. We are far from alone in this. The South continues to be a bastion of Judaeo-Christian civilization, which is why the tranzi-progressive/pro-jihadi axis constantly bashes Southerners as “rednecks,” “hillbillies,” “bigots,” and so forth. It is all because the “common folks” of the “Red States” in the South keep getting in the way of their evil agenda.
No mosques in Dixie, and no burqas either!
Australian glass sculptor and muralist Sergio Redegalli is the director of Cydonia, an art glass studio in Newtown, New South Wales. Much as I like art glass, we’re all about the counterjihad, so let’s take a look at Mr. Redegalli’s murals instead. He paints them on the outside wall of his own glass studio. You gotta love this stuff!
Redegalli has been at the forefront of the anti-burqa movement. For clarity, click here to see what a burqa is, and no, a burqa not the same thing as a hijab (Muslim scarf covering the head, neck, and hair). That said, a niqab (face veil), worn with a hijab and voluminous clothing, provides nearly the same facial and bodily disguise as does a burqa, so the term “burqa” is used informally to refer to either system of disguise.
A SYDNEY artist whose anti-burka mural has infuriated left-wing and Islamic activists is vowing that the provocative artwork will stay in place despite death threats, abuse, a string of vandalism attacks, a violent weekend protest and a police request to remove it.
Newtown glass sculptor Sergio Redegalli has this week restored the mural painted outside his studio for more than the 40th time after dozens of graffiti and paint-bomb attacks by protesters who say it is racist and inflammatory.
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The sculptor, who is a well-known figure in inner-suburban Newtown, says he has since been visited by local police who asked him to take down the mural after learning of a threat to fire-bomb it.He refuses to do so in the interests of free speech and public debate.
“I’m not going to let the bullies win,” Redegalli told The Australian yesterday.
“I’m not doing it for pride (but because) I don’t believe bullies have the right to stand over people and deny us our freedoms.”
Redegalli painted the mural and slogan “Say no to burqas” on an exterior wall of his glassworks last September, after a local fashion designer received death threats over a plan to feature models wearing the traditional Islamic garment in a fashion parade.
The artist says his objective is to promote debate about the Islamic face veil, which he sees as a symbol of repression and violent extremism.
Redegalli sometimes repaints his mural to cast a harsh light upon Aussie politicians, such as Fiona Byrne and PM Julia Gillard, both of whom toe the Red + Green + Green, socialist/eco-fraudster/dhimmi political line.
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Sergio’s Mural WatchOur dear friend Sergio Redegalli updated his mural again:
The Watermelon Greens: Green on the Outside, Red Inside. Time to dispatch them to the scrap-heap of history…
THE GREENS candidate tipped to take the once-safe Labor seat of Marrickville from the Deputy Premier, Carmel Tebbutt, in the state election has been targeted in a mural over her council’s decision to boycott Israel.
Marrickville Council’s support for the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign (BDS) against Israel in December has already been the subject of hostile questions to the Greens candidate and mayor of Marrickville, Fiona Byrne, at a debate with Ms Tebbutt last week.
The policy has been attacked by numerous media commentators and Labor member for Grayndler, Anthony Albanese, who is also Ms Tebbutt’s husband, penned a newspaper column last month condemning the boycott as “unfortunate and misguided at best”.
Yesterday a mural in Newtown stating “Say no to the burqa” was temporarily repainted by its artist, Sergio Redegalli, to read “Say no to Fiona Byrne”. The burqa-clad woman with a strike through her was replaced by a figure in green and a mayoral sceptre stabbing a Star of David.
Ms Byrne said that the mural was dehumanising but she stood by the boycott.
“We don’t live in a vacuum … things that happen nationally and internationally affect people in our local area.”
Ms Byrne said Israel had not been singled out, and that she supported the federal government’s sanctions on countries such as Zimbabwe and the longstanding council boycott of Burma.
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Redegalli, a Newton resident, said he was keeping the new mural up for only 24 hours to document it.He has drawn praise from anti-Muslim immigration groups for the original anti-burqa mural and has addressed a number of political meetings, including an Ironbark Club meeting in December, which is run by the far-right nationalist Australian Protectionist Party (APP).
He told the Herald he planned to send photos of the new mural to a range of contacts, including prominent members of the APP and the website the Gates of Vienna, which claims the West is in a “new phase” of an “old war” against Islam.
The artist said he was not a member of any political party and hated Labor.
“[I wanted to] get people to look up Fiona Byrne, see who she is, what she stands for,” he said.
In this mural, Redegalli shows Fiona Byrne in a green burqa with a mayoral crown and a scepter labeled “BDS”, which stabs the Star of David:
Our Greens Love Anti-Semites.
Or could it be that they’re anti-Semites?
Andrew Bolt
The bigotry is in direct relationship to the ignorance – and futility:
The Greens’ Marrickville policy. NSW candidate and mayor Fiona Byrne on ABC Online’s The Drum Unleashed on January 13:
On December 14 last year, Marrickville Council in Sydney’s inner west resolved to support a boycott of goods produced in Israel and of cultural and sporting exchanges with Israeli institutions, withdrawal of funds from institutions and companies that invest in or do significant business with Israel, and the implementation of government actions [sanctions] that indicate disapproval of Israeli policies in the illegally occupied Palestinian territories.
A message from Sergio Redegalli:
‘I have attached the image of my latest Mural, I have temporarily created this image over the SAY NO TO BURQAS mural, I will change it back in the next few days after enough Sydney siders have seen it going past by train.’
I think that its title should be THE QUEEN GREEN RUBBISH BAG or GREEN RUBBISH BAG.
Redegalli recently weighed in on the nefarious Australian PM, Julia Gillard, who resembles Barack Hussein Obama in every way but outward appearance:
“A fight to the death in the arena of public opinion” … Prime Minister Julia Gillard turns her back on Opposition Leader Tony Abbott on 7 July 2011
Sergio Redegalli put up another mural today. Lets see if it lasts through the night. If you don’t know what BDS means, check it out here…
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