Australian Senator Pauline Hanson “slammed feminists as ‘pathetic’ for not supporting a ban on the burqa.”
The burqa has been banned in various countries on security grounds, or because it is inconsistent with Western values; sometimes it’s banned for both reasons. These countries have banned the burqa: France, Austria, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, Bulgaria, China, Tajikistan, Morocco, Latvia, Cameroon, Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, and Gabon.
Pauline Hanson amassed a petition in Australia “of more than 23,300 names” in support for a call to immediately ban the burqa and niqab. She referred to these garments as “confrontational and intimidating”
She added:
In a society we want to feel inclusive, yet these women are covering up fully when they go swimming. My suggestion is: Australia’s not for you.
Hanson is no stranger to controversy and to defending Australian values, rule and order. After a 9-year-old girl’s recent refused to stand for the Australian national anthem at school, Hanson stated that the girl deserves “a kick up the backside” and to be expelled.
Last year Hanson “wore a burqa into the Senate chamber” to illustrate its absurdity.
“Pauline Hanson has slammed feminists in parliament who don’t support a burqa ban,” by Gavin Fernand, News.com.au, September 13, 2018:
PAULINE Hanson has slammed feminists as “pathetic” for not supporting a ban on the burqa.
Speaking on Today this morning, the One Nation leader suggested feminists in parliament who didn’t oppose the burqa were hypocrites.
“Here they are standing up for women’s rights, but there a lot of women who are forced to wear the burqa by their male counterparts,” Senator Hanson said.
“Now I’m sure that there’s the lot and they’ve actually said it in programs that I’ve watched … there’s a lot of women who have said that they want to move away from the ideology of Islam and it really is.
“Free these women. They fought to get their vote in this country — one of the first countries in the world to actually give the vote — and women are moving forward, they’re fighting for equality, they’re fighting for equal wages — and yet you’re quite prepared to see a woman get around fully clothed with this burqa, and even when they’re swimming. It’s ridiculous, it’s beyond me.”
Senator Hanson said she was putting up the motion to test where Prime Minister Scott Morrison stood on the issue.
According to The Australian, she has amassed a petition of more than 23,300 names in support for a call to immediately ban the “wearing of the Islamic headdress, the niqab and burka” because they are “confrontational and intimidating”.
“In a society we want to feel inclusive, yet these women are covering up fully when they go swimming. My suggestion is: Australia’s not for you,” she said. “They’ve made themselves basically unemployable.
“They come out here and wear that. Do they ever apply for jobs? I couldn’t possibly put one on if I had my takeaway shop around the gas cookers and burners.”
Senator Hanson has long been a vocal critic of the burqa, and what she calls the “ideology of Islam”……