Researcher Houriya Ahmed appears on The Times Online

Houriya Ahmed discusses the recent law passed in France making it an offence to wear the niqab in public (14/07/2010).

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News & Politics

Tags:

• Centre
• for
• Social
• Cohesion;
• Niqab;
• Niqab
• ban;
• Houriya
• Ahmed

[Hereticalable]

Yes we have freedom of expression but we are dealing with people who come from countries who do not offer us freedom of expression when we visit them and who wish the same for our society.

I think tolerance is a wonderful thing but it's immediate neighbours are weakness and apathy. Europe needs to draw some lines in the mud now and explain to Muslims living in our lands that if they cross them there will be consequences. Better for Muslims to leave Islam if they come to Europe...

[terajasoos]

hi houriya, its me shahzad----im sure u have youtube----send me a letter

long time, no hear

waiting for ur reply

[israelifaggot]

@katefromthenorth, are you being sarcastic or what?

[Hereticalable]

@katefromthenorth - styles come and go, fashions change and in Stanton's time clothing was often used as a means to restrict women hence the movement for sensible dress. Today women have more fashion freedom than men and can and do wear skirts and trousers as they see fit without anyone telling them what to do (with perhaps the exception of certain employers but it's hardly oppression to get paid to wear a uniform etc for eight hours a day).

[Hereticalable]

@katefromthenorth - Nice avoidance of responding to any of my points by sticking to going on about tights. I didn't call you a muslim, I said I felt you were one and were therefore bias. If you think that's negative that's your perogative. Stanton lived in a age of corsets not tights (which were actually invented by a woman to liberate them from suspenders). Stanton was also an abolitionist - something the Muslim world hasn't quite gotten around to yet in some areas

[katefromthenorth]

@Hereticalable have you carried out a survey on the reasons why women wear tights? What does 'many' mean statistically? Typical to brush aside a serious comment by calling someone a 'Muslim' (your usage is in the sense of a negative and ignorant stereotype). Anyway case it appears that you may not have heard of the 'sensible or rational dress movement' nor of Cady Stanton's call for emancipated women to adopt eastern style women's clothing as more appropriate to the restrictive western style.

[Hereticalable]

@katefromthenorth - Now you're just answering questions with more quetsions...I think it's a poor analogy by the way...crash helmets would have been better since many women don't mind wearing tights at all. My lady wears them all the time by her own choice as do many of her friends. Anyway legwear aside I feel you're a Muslim and so bias.

[katefromthenorth]

@Hereticalable what are you objecting to - my call to ban tights or my understanding of the Centre of Social Cohesion? You may need to explain to me how tights are not both bodily and financially oppressive to women and in what way you believe that the Centre promotes social cohesion and, how is my analogy of men's misuse women's attire is any less legitimate than Ahmed's. As for blind critical theory: do you advocate some kind of moral philosophy or value system then? What might that be?

[Hereticalable]

@katefromthenorth - your intullectual dishonesty is quite amazing really - do you espouse the blind propogation of critical theory or are you simply a sympthatiser or convert to a 6th century Arabian ideology?

[Hereticalable]

@katefromthenorth - You're confusing chav holiday makers (whome I despise and look down upon) with people who go to other countries to settle and stay for good. The Turks are often happy to take money from low-class Brits because they know they will be going home after a week. If people like that were staying, looking for work and getting benefits from the government it would be a different matter. Also, you're assuming all British people who go on vacation behave in such a way which is false.

[katefromthenorth]

Houriya Ahmed has the potential according to the Centre for Social Cohesion to revert back to millitancy since her religion is Islam , every Muslim is a ticking time bomb according to this organisation, best not listen to her! Ummmmmmm??