A Georgia state legislator has introduced a bill aimed at banning Muslim women from wearing the burqa or other traditional Muslim veils, a response to constituents’ fears of terrorism.
Republican Jason Spencer (180th District, Woodbine) introduced a bill that would make it illegal for Muslim women to wear a veil in public. It would also prohibit them from wearing a veil for driver’s license photos and while driving.
Spencer is seeking to add the language banning the veil, called a hijab and niqab, as well as a burqa, to the state’s anti-Ku Klux Klan laws meant to stop Klan members from wearing hoods and other masks to conceal their identify.
The Republican lawmaker insisted that his bill was crafted to put a crimp in the movements of possible terrorists.
The conduits for these muslim immigrants is the Catholic and Lutheran charity organizations that receive government funds. The Mormon church has also jumped on the bandwagon. If you are members of these churches your voice should be heard on this issue.
“A person is guilty of a misdemeanor when he or she wears a mask, hood, or device by which any portion of the face is so hidden, concealed or covered as to conceal the identity of the wearer and is upon any public way or public property or upon the private property of another without the written permission of the owner or occupier of the property to do so.”
Well, there goes Halloween…
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I thought that was already a law to curtail the adventures of the KKK and those evil rodeo clowns wearing Obola and Bush masks …
Maybe I’m thinking of Mississippi …
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Unfortunately, he caved. 🙁
http://www.house-press.com/?p=6060&utm_source=Copy+of+87+words+-+GaPundit+for+Nov+18%2C+2016&utm_campaign=GaPundit+Todd+Rehm+Georgia+Politics+04202015&utm_medium=email
I live in Georgia and I’m going to contact Spencer about amending the bill to include prohibition of ANYONE publicly protesting not to be aloud to cover their face on the grounds that anonymity mixed with mob mentality is a surefire way to create violence.
I can think of a couple of ‘celebrity’ women who should be exempt from the prohibition.
Yeah, we just need a “no masks in the following public situations, ever” rule, including the situations mentioned like photo ID, on the road, public protests, etc. I need to get going so I am not going to read the specifics right now and this is the first I’ve heard of it, but assuming that the language is worded this way and it’s not just headline sensationalism as usual, that’s too bad because it just gives the hysterians more fuel and takes the focus off the purpose of the bill which is public safety, not “islamophobic blah blah the sky is falling” and will render it dead on arrival. People should be allowed to wear scarves on their hair if they so choose, that’s not unreasonable and I doubt anybody cares. But nobody should be allowed to cover most or all of their face with a veil, mask, paper bag, anything at all, in certain public situations where physical identification must be possible for several reasons. Plenty of situations where you can wear whatever you want.
Rosie O’Donnell and Babs Streisand should be REQUIRED to wear masks.
Oh, yeah, and Whoopie Goldberg, too.
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There are simple practical issues to consider, such as the inability to identify people wearing a facial veil, which is obviously necessary for law enforcement and many normal, everyday activities.
People shouldn’t go around with their faces covered; it’s a security issue. We’re not allowed to go around with our license plates covered.
A person has to be identifiable. It’s surely not racist.
There is a valid distrust of a religion that supports violence. Nobody can tell if behind these clothes a male or female is hinding, and/or a terrorist or suicide bomber and/or a fanatic killer
“A person has to be identifiable.”
Why?
“GOODSTUFF?” “BIGFURHAT?” “BAD_BRAD?” “SCREWTHISITSHTAY?” “GEOFRAZ?”
What a crock of bullshit.
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