Abbott mentioned today that a burqa is confronting

Some of Australia's heroes wear masks - Ned Kelly and Dame Edna comes to mind 

A full burqa is like a tent from head to toe with only the eyes visible. Put a pair of sunnies on that and you have uncle IT walking around the streets.

You can't really tell if the person underneath the burqa is male or female - has a weapon or not

There are plenty of incidents in Europe - bank robbers wore full burqas to rob banks.

There is no way to identify the person wearing a burqa.

Been to an airport where someone try to scan people wearing a burqa?

Lets see how many posts gets posted before lefties starts screaming "racist"

Burkas are not confronting.

I can't believe Abbott actually said that. Why is it that when politicians finally get round to addressing the problems with Islam they end up picking on the women? He is as bad as the French president.

Talk about actual oppression? Can't touch that. Might upset the menfolk. Lets talk about signs of oppression instead.

I also had a bit of a chuckle at Abbott describing a plan from a science fiction novel to shoot suspects with a GPS tracking device from a high powered sniper rifle (his candidate appears to think it is a company that can supply the device, not a novel) as "the micro-detail of policing".

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2013/burqa-confronting-says-tony-abbott-as-he-defends-candidate-ray-king-20130831-2sx8l.html

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has confessed to finding the burqa "confronting" while defending Liberal candidate Ray King for describing the Islamic attire as a "sign of oppression".

Asked whether he supported the statements by Mr King, who drew a link between the burqa and criminality at a fund-raiser, Mr Abbott admitted he found it "a very confronting attire".

"Frankly, it's not the sort of attire that I would like to see widespread in our streets," Mr Abbott told reporters on Saturday, while campaigning in Queensland.

Mr King, the former Liverpool police commander standing against Treasurer Chris Bowen in the western Sydney seat of McMahon, urged an end to Muslim women wearing the burqa.
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He also drew a link between the burqa and criminality at the $300-a-head fund-raiser in Smithfield in May, where guests included the disgraced former detective Roger Rogerson, according to an attendee.

Despite expressing concern about the burqa, Mr Abbott said people were "entitled to make their choice" to wear the Islamic attire.

He defended Mr King as having an "unblemished record".

Mr King was the subject of a complaint to the Community Relations Commission in 2011 over allegedly racist remarks he made at a "meet and greet" with migrant representatives.

Mr Abbott refused to comment on a separate Fairfax Media report revealing Mr King had proposed a radical new policing system in which criminal suspects would be injected with satellite-trackable microchips shot from a "high powered sniper rifle".

"I'm just not going to get into the micro-detail of policing," Mr Abbott said.

He accused the Labor Party of running a smear campaign against Mr King.

"Ray King is a decorated police officer with an umblemished record," he said.

"His integrity and professionalism has been repeatedly vouched for."

Mr King appeared before the Wood royal commission into the NSW police force over the practice of Fairfield detectives receiving free meals and alcohol from the Marconi Club in exchange for an informal security presence.

When questioned subsequently about his comments on the burqa, Mr King rejected saying they had no place in Australian society.

The vote is 4:1

freediver wrote on Aug 31^st, 2013 at 10:24pm:

nuff said, definitely not voting the greens 

I actually think that it should be banned. Muslims have no intention of assimilating into the australian way of life. Th come here and form their little ghettos, try to kick out anyone who isn't Muslim, and have up to 10 kids a family, and then claim welfare. Muslims are parasites.

Bankstown and Fairfield = Middle East in Australia. Go there and see how long it takes to find someone with blonde hair and blue eyes.

matty wrote on Aug 31^st, 2013 at 11:20pm:


Could say the same about

Richmond  = Vietnam in Australia
Caulfield = Israel in Australia
Box Hill = China in Australia
Brunswick = Italy in Australia
Oakleigh = Greece in Australia

Care factor? None.

With the amount of ugly Arab women out there,  the  Burqa should be compulsory