AIBU to think face coverings in public should be banned?

Which culture requires the niqab? Headcovering is a thing but the niqab?

Lol you might for the pink fluffy balaclava. Crimes against fashion

It's very difficult to have conversation when you rely on lip reading though

I think it's patronising to say they are being repressed when plenty like it.
Why are you commenting on what women choose to wear?

There's some very little ones near me all covered up. It doesn't feel right.

Most of the foreheads in my social circle no longer have the ability to convey any information or cues.

Would you ban Botox as well?

Except this isn't a middle Eastern country- we already have laws that prosecute coercive control (like forcing a woman to vail her face against her wishes).
The goverment bringing in laws to control how women dress under the guise of stopping men controlling how women dress is a ludicrous suggestion

Are hoodies (the garments, not the people who wear them) still banned in Bluewater shopping centre?

Hug a hoodie!

What an absolutely idiotic idea. It's like disabled people don't exist to you people. What about people who can't go out without a mask because an infection could quite literally kill them? Currently dealing with this now with a family member who has leukemia

Citation needed.

...and nuns

Being a Muslim isn’t a race.

There are even vile white men like Andrew Tate who have converted. There are many white Muslims like in Algeria.

I don’t really care for the racist word when it comes to women’s rights sorry. You won’t scare many of us off with that nonsense anymore.

The main issue is youths in balaclavas and bike helmets? Then that is what should be required to be removed when going into a public place.
I have no issue with women wearing face coverings as long as they want to.
Similarly I have no issue with people wearing scarves when its hot, or medical grade masks on public transport.

It’s not remotely challenging, and medical conditions where someone ends up immunocompromised are NOT exceptional. There are many hundreds of thousands of immunocompromised people. We have families who also take precautions.

It is a huge leap from “I don’t want hordes of teenagers wearing balaclavas to storm shopping centres” to “all face coverings should be banned in public”!

I don’t want hordes of teenagers to storm shopping centres either.

Banning disabled people from doing their shopping in a medical mask won’t stop hordes of teenagers storming shopping centres.

Banning women who wear face coverings for religious reasons from accessing public spaces won’t stop hordes of teenagers storming shopping centres.

Banning wearing scarfs and balaclavas won’t stop hordes of teenagers storming shopping centres.

I don’t know what will stop this violent and antisocial behaviour, but surely a reasonable first step would be to increase the police presence, and require the police to take action? Taking direct steps to tackle the antisocial behaviour, rather than banning disabled and religious people (women) from public life…

Then you have no idea how patriarchal and abusive religions can be to women. Look at the Middle Eastern countries and what they’re doing to women and girls right now.

This is about everyone from someone wearing a bike helmet to another wearing a balaclava having to show their faces in public settings. Unfortunately the high trust society has started to be decimated and we need to be able to identify and persecute troublemakers.

My face has been covered when out of the house for the last few months due to the weather. I have a fab snood that covers my chin and mouth and nose and a big woolly hat the comes down to my eyebrows. I speak to plenty of folks whilst out and about and no one seems threatened by me.

So what you’re saying here is we should accept women’s faces completely shrouded in public in case their husbands commit domestic violence and keep them as prisoners?

No. As western women we should do all in our power for outreach to Muslim women and make this behaviour completely unacceptable in the UK. We do not bow down to vile men and their demands here and we should not allow the slow creep under the malicious guise of religious freedom. I don’t care who your sky fairy is, women should not be suffering at the hands of men. Giving up is pathetic.

Oh behave. One is for the cold winter, another is religious oppression and the final one is because you’re up to no good.

Poor old Johnson. He would have liked to ban any kind of face covering, but his handlers made him tell us to wear them. He tried to resist wearing one himself, but his handlers brainwashed him by showing him a montage of world leaders, all wearing a face nappy covering, then photos of himself not wearing one.

People who wear face coverings to break the law aren't going to be put off by making face coverings unlawful...

A man dressed as a Muslim woman was sent to prison for taking driving tests theory over and over so people who weren’t good enough to pass it themselves were recorded as having passed it.

Now they pretty much strip you naked when you take your driving theory. Yes I’m being silly but they do ask pupils to roll up their trousers and sleeves, turn pockets inside out, lift hair up and remove glasses to check for recording devices.

My 2 lady Muslim pupils weren’t checked at all even though there are plenty of female staff present to check them.

At the driving test centre several men dressed as Muslim women were found to be taking driving tests for people who weren’t at an acceptable standard to take them themselves. Now there are always female examiners present to check the identity of anyone who turns up with a face covering. No one seems to anymore.