Burka

The whole Burka issue. Any infringement against civil liberties and personal freedoms is liable to be a mistake and in the long run isn't worth it. It's not worth the loss of those freedoms, or the precedent that's established by introducing such legislation. The supporters of it argue that it's socially devisive, that could be applied to any mode of dress, someone with short hair and a tracksuit probably views my hair as socially devisive. It's generally up to the indvidual to be socially involved, certainly through most of my teenage years i didn't appear especially approachable when i walked down the street. And that seems to be the only reference to said devisiveness, the apparent fear caused by a group of burka clad women, how talkative is anybody as they walk down the street? I don't leave the house and expect to make new friends everywhere I go. I also doubt there would be much of an issue if the women in question weren't muslim Asians, i doubt if they were simply a new fashion favoured by white british women there would be so much terror. Only time and a cautious, inoffensive government, can assure a hope of ethnic integration, and continuosly pointing out the differences, whether through posistive or negative discrimination, will only heighten the divisions.