freediver wrote on Apr 19
th, 2018 at 8:16pm:
If you want people to know what you are talking about, I suggest using the term letterbox outfit.
Good idea FD. Far better to be deliberately insulting rather than actually make an effort to understand the correct terms. And yes, the hijab is the regular scarf that covers only the hair. Thats what Frank wants to ban, despite his failed attempted games to obfuscate the issue. But yeah, totally not misrepresenting his views eh...
freediver wrote on Apr 19
th, 2018 at 8:16pm:
Neither is common. But that is beside the point. The distinction you are making does not exist.
Rubbish, rubbish and triple rubbish.
1. head scarves (aka the hijab) are as common as anything in anything remotely resembling a major metropolitan centre in Australia. Niqabs are less common, but are a gazillion times more common in Australia than KKK outfits. What a joke to pretend they aren't.
2 & 3. It is not beside Frank's point that attempts to draw a moral comparison between hijabs and/or niqabs and KKK outfits. They are like night and day. And its the height of ignorance and bigotry to absurdly claim that the clear distinctions I pointed out do not exist. If you are still skeptical, ask yourself the simple question - do you ever see people dressed up in KKK hoods doing the shopping? And do you see the same for women in hijabs, or even niqabs?
freediver wrote on Apr 19
th, 2018 at 8:16pm:
You appear to be arguing that how often KKK members wear their hoods is relevant to whether they should be allowed to wear it. If we treated Muslim women who wear the letterbox outfit the same way we treat KKK members in their garb, fewer of them would wear it, so we could make the same argument about them that you do about the KKK.
That still makes no sense.
Either way I am not making any argument about what criteria we should apply to ban KKK outfits. There is only one person in this discussion arguing for any sort of ban. And yet, here are you, the great freedom defender, spinelessly apologising for him. Yes you are.
I will make the point though about motivation. And emphasise again that I believe people in KKK outfits wear KKK outfits for no other purpose than to intimidate or worse other people. Women in Niqabs or hijabs do not. And to attempt to draw some moral equivalence between the two is, as I say, the height of bigotry.