Ban the burqa: Muslim leader
A leading Muslim in Australia has risked a backlash from his community by calling on the winner of the Federal election to ban the wearing of burqas in public: Ameer Ali, an economics lecturer at Murdoch University and vice-president of the Regional Islamic Council of South-East Asia and the Pacific, describes the burqa and similar robe the niqab as “the lingering relics of a patriarchal, misogynistic and tribal culture” and argues there is no religious obligation in the Koran for it to be worn.
via:[http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/7717510/ban-the-burqa-muslim-leader/]
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