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December 28, 2006
India: Ban On Muslim Burka After Jewel Store Thefts
News from Times of India and AP via Daily Times:
Pune is a city in Maharashtra state in central India. The Pune Jewellers Association has made a petition to the state home minister to allow them to ban women wearing burkas from entering their jewelry stores. The association is not intending to ban women who are veiled, but only those who do not show their faces.
The reason for the request is based upon three recent robberies. Closed circuit TV cameras showed that the perpetrators in these cases were women wearing the all-enveloping burka.
During the Diwali (Hindu New Year) rush, two large stores were subjected to robberies of gold by burka clad women. One store lost 400,000 rupees' worth of stock ($9,054), while another lost 300,000 rupees' worth ($6,790).
Jewelry stores in Pune will be closed on Friday, and they have announced that starting on January 1, they will not be serving women who wear burkas.
DN Jadhav, Pune's police commissioner, has said that the ban would not be allowed if it caused resentments in the Muslim community. He said: "If they are really concerned about security, they can appoint saleswomen and women security guards in their shops."
In Canada in November a robbery was carried out by two people who presented themselves as a man with a burka-clad wife. Abdul Rasheed Khalid allowed the pair into his Toronto store, Zaibi Jewellers, thinking a married Muslim couple would be trustworthy. Once inside, the pair attacked him, and tied him up at gunpoint. The "wife" was a man. The pair then cleared out Mr Khalid's entire stock.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at December 28, 2006 11:12 PM
Comments
Hi Giraldus,
You should read this article too:
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/30/asia/AS_GEN_Kashmir_Violence.php
Though the burka is no more than one of the symptons of a disease called islam, a worldwide ban on the thing would have its healthy effects, don't you think so ?
Greetings,
Björn Roose
Posted by: Björn Roose ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.westernresistance.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at December 31, 2006 12:03 PM
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