A video of a student in Indian state of Karnataka went viral on social media, where the radical Muslim girl is burqa clad is seen chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ slogan similarly as those Islamic State (ISIS) brides or female brigades of the radical Islamic jihadist outfits. The entire scenario seems to be pre-planned and most definitely enemies of Hindus, India and agents of jihadist outfits and Pakistani spy agency Inter Service Intelligence must have hands behind such outrageous act. Unfortunately, the conglomerate of Islamist, secularists and communists in India are expressing support towards this radical Muslim female, while in most of the Muslim nations, this particular incident is shown as a “victory of Muslims over Hindus” and “rise of Islam in India”. Meaning, the notorious conglomerate of Islamist, secularists and communists are making orchestrated bids in Islamizing India.
The burqa (a total head and body covering) has been barred from classrooms in the UK, is illegal in public places in five Belgian towns. Once-exotic forms of Muslim women’s head and body garments have now become both familiar in the West and the source of fractious political and legal disputes.
The hijab (a hair-covering) is ever-more popular in Detroit but has been banned from French public schools, discouraged by the International Football Association Board, and excluded from a court in the US state of Georgia.
The jilbab (a garment that leaves only the face and hands exposed) was, in a case partly argued by Tony Blair’s wife, first allowed, then forbidden in an English school.
The niqab (a total covering except for the eyes) became a hot topic when Jack Straw, a British Labour politician, wrote that he “felt uncomfortable” talking to women wearing it. If Quebec election authorities disallow the niqab from voting booths and a judge disallowed it from a Florida driver’s license, it is permitted in British courts and a Dutch candidate for municipal office wore one. A British hospital even invented a niqab patients’ gown.
The burqa (a total head and body covering) has been barred from classrooms in the UK, is illegal in public places in five Belgian towns, and the Dutch legislature has attempted to ban it altogether. Italy’s “Charter of Values, Citizenship and Immigration” calls face coverings not acceptable. A courtroom in the United States has expelled a burqa’ed woman.
According to counterterrorism experts, burqas and niqabs should be banned in all public spaces because they present a security risk. Anyone might lurk under those shrouds – female or male, Muslim or non-Muslim, decent citizen, fugitive, or criminal – with who knows what evil purposes.
We need to note, jihadists and terrorists mostly hide beneath burqas. A spectacular act of would-be escape took place in early July 2019, when Maulana Mohammad Abdul Aziz Ghazi, 46, tried to flee the Red Mosque complex in Islamabad, Pakistan, where he had helped lead an insurrection aiming to topple the government. He donned a black burqa and high heels but, unfortunately for him, his height, demeanor, and pot belly gave him away, leading to his arrest.
One of the July 2005 London bombers, Yassin Omar, 26, took on the burqa twice – once when fleeing the scene of the crime, then a day later, when fleeing London for the Midlands.
Other male burqa-clad fugitives include a Somali murder suspect in the United Kingdom, Palestinian killers fleeing Israeli justice, a member of the Taliban fleeing NATO forces in Afghanistan, and the murderer of a Sunni Islamist in Pakistan.
Burqas and niqabs also facilitate non-political criminal behavior. Unsurprisingly, favorite targets of robberies include jewelry stores (examples come from Canada, Great Britain, and India) and banks (Great Britain, Bosnia, and two 2007 attacks in Philadelphia). Curiously, in Kenya, street prostitutes have donned buibuis (which reveals slightly more of the face than a niqab), the better to blend into the night population and avoid the police.
Expressing the universal fear aroused by these garments, a recent Pakistani horror film, Zabahkhana (meaning “slaughterhouse” in Urdu) includes a sadistic cannibalistic killer figure dubbed “Burqa Man.”
The practice of covering the face derives from tribal customs that build on Islamic law, not the law itself. For example, some tribeswomen in Saudi Arabia’s Al-Kharj region put on the burqa at puberty, then never take it off – not for other women, not for their husbands, and not for their children. These family members typically see the woman’s face only when viewing her corpse.
British research offers another reason to drop the burqa and niqab, finding that covered women and their breast-fed children lack sufficient amounts of vitamin D (which the skin absorbs from sunlight) and are at serious risk of rickets.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson compared the burqa worn women with a postbox. His remarks drew unimaginable criticism in a number of radical Muslim nations though, but the main protests took place in the UK, a country which is gradually going into the grips of radical Islam, if not sharia and even worst. There is every reason for Britons to feel worried at the rise of radical Islam especially when we hear about British politicians mixing with Islamist terrorists and even joining into business ventures with them.
Following Boris Johnson’s remarks, shocking information centering burqa has been appearing in various media outlets with the information and data of how criminals are using burqa as the most convenient attire for committing the crime.
In Chad in July 2015, a man dressed in a burqa detonated a suicide bomb in the main market in the country’s capital N’Djamena, killing 15 people and injuring 80, with authorities blaming Boko Haram, the radical Islamic terror group based in neighboring Nigeria.
While defenders of the burqa in the West will claim it is not a security threat, countries in Africa have opted to ban the burqa and the niqab, with Muslim majority Chad banning them in the same year it suffered the aforementioned attack.
Fellow African nations Gabon, Congo, and parts of Cameroon also banned the burqa in the same year, also for security reasons, and in 2017, North African nation of Morocco banned the production and manufacture of the clothing over fears of terrorism, and to crack down on Islamic extremism.
There have also been terror attacks by burqa-clad assailants in Asia and the Middle East, where an Islamic State operative “dressed as a woman” blew himself up in his car outside the Shia Imam Hussein mosque in Sunni-majority Saudi Arabia in May 2015, killing four.
While motorcyclists are expected to remove their helmets before entering banks and jewelry stores, the same is not expected of those wearing Islamic face veils, with criminals taking advantage of liberal laws in Western countries to commit armed robbery.
In May 2017, an armed gang was jailed after using Islamic burqas to hide their identities as they stole hundreds of thousands of pounds in raids across Manchester, northern England, with similar robberies in Australia in 2017, the US in 2015, and Canada in 2014.
American anti-Islamisation campaigner Pamela Geller, former UK Independence Party leader Paul Nuttall, and Australian anti-mass migration senator Pauline Hanson have all called for the ban on the Islamic garment on security grounds in their respective countries, while the garment has already been banned on grounds of social cohesion in France, Denmark, and Austria, amongst others in Europe.
During the recent years, the vicious conglomerate of Islamists, secularists and communists in India are continuing anti-Hindu notoriety by using Muslims in the country. At the same time, notorious Tablighi Jamaat, the antechamber of terrorism has been continuing activities although this organization is already proved to be the front-desk of Al Qaeda, Islamic State and other radical Islamic militancy outfits.
Indian authorities need to take immediate measures in banning burqa, hijab and Tablighi Jamaat. For the sake of India’s internal security as well as regional and global security, such measures are essential.
