Freedom of Speech

For France to have banned the Burca is an abuse of the freedom of the individual. Even though walking around with a veil covering your face is in my view demeaning, even cowardly, and should never be allowed when it comes to appearances in court or where someone needs to be identified it is wrong to ban it altogether. It is also an abuse of the freedom of the individual to prevent people from mocking religions of any kind. Knocking Christianity is considered fair game but for some reason or other we must not knock other religions. This to me is quite wrong. To prevent people from knocking Mohammedanism is to give its adherents and maybe others the idea that it is somehow special and superior to other religions whereas of course it is not and in the way that some of its adherents choose to interpret it it is without question inferior. We have the rule of law in this country and if those who wish to practice sharia law here may only do so in so far as it does not offend the laws of this country. If certain muslims cannot accept that then this country is not for them. Those muslims will have to decide whether their country or their religion is the more important to them and if, like the first emigrants to what is now the United States, they decide their religion is more important to them then they should emigrate to a country that is more compatible with their views, at least until Parliament decides we should become a muslim country. If I am alive at that point I shall emigrate.