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This State Now Allowing Muslim Women to Wear Burkas in License Photo

Posted by Arthur Browne / February 3, 2016

 

Islam is having a hard time throughout the world and the actions of ISIS and other radical Muslims don't show any signs of changing the violent perception of Islam. Yet some progressives and liberals seem to remain unaware of the threat that Islam and violent Muslims pose to freedom and the United States.

Most recently this ignorance was revealed in a new law in the state of Illinois which allows Muslims and anyone who wears a head covering for "religious reasons," to be photographed for identification purposes while wearing their head covering.

At first glance this law would appear to be a simple concession to help appease those people who would be furious at having to remove their head coverings. But then Muslims wearing burqas showed up to be photographed for driver's licenses and things got out of hand.

According to a press release from the State of Illinois, "customers [of the Department of Motor Vehicles] may be photographed while wearing established religious head coverings." That means that burqas, Muslim religious garb that covers a person's entire body and leaves only the eyes (and sometimes not even that) exposed is allowed.

If driver's licenses were only used to demonstrate that an individual has the skills necessary to operate a vehicle the new rule allowing burqas would be fine. Sure, you don't have to show us your face to show us that you can drive a car.

But driver's licenses are, for better or worse, used now as I.D. for airline check-ins, purchasing restricted items, and much more. Driver's licenses are used to confirm someone's identity, something that is impossible if the only discernible feature is a person's eyes and height.

Illinois should have known that Muslims would be quick to take advantage of the rule, quick to resume anonymity. It's the anonymity that's dangerous. If we don't know who these people are, how can we be sure that they are acting the way they appear to be acting and not readying terrorist attacks?

http://usherald.com/this-state-now-allows-muslim-women-to-wear-burkas-in-license-photo/#
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Re: This State Now Allowing Muslim Women to Wear Burkas in License Photo
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2016, 02:52:55 pm »
A Burka in a Photo ID??  The world has gone completely mad....
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Re: This State Now Allowing Muslim Women to Wear Burkas in License Photo
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2016, 04:13:40 pm »
A Burka in a Photo ID??  The world has gone completely mad....

No. You have to HAVE a mind before you can lose it,so it seems like the majority of voters and politicians these days need not fear going insane.
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Re: This State Now Allowing Muslim Women to Wear Burkas in License Photo
« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2016, 04:19:49 pm »
A Burka in a Photo ID??  The world has gone completely mad....

No, only the West...the multicultural west.  The rest of the world is perfectly sane (if a bit predatory).  It is only the West that is stark raving mad.
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Re: This State Now Allowing Muslim Women to Wear Burkas in License Photo
« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2016, 05:30:23 pm »
Ban Muslum women from driving in the US.  Problem solved.

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« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2016, 05:52:33 pm »
Also, It Probably is another reason why IL DL's will not be an acceptible form of ID to Board Airplanes or where FED ID's are needed to gain access.

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Re: This State Now Allowing Muslim Women to Wear Burkas in License Photo
« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2016, 06:31:43 pm »
Ban Muslum women from driving in the US.  Problem solved.

In order to be gender neutral it should be "muslims" rather than "muslim women".

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Re: This State Now Allowing Muslim Women to Wear Burkas in License Photo
« Reply #7 on: February 03, 2016, 06:33:57 pm »
No. You have to HAVE a mind before you can lose it,so it seems like the majority of voters and politicians these days need not fear going insane.

Point well taken.  :patriot:
Character still matters.  It always matters.

I wear a mask as an exercise in liberty and love for others.  To see it as an infringement of liberty is to entirely miss the point.  Be kind.

"Sometimes I think the Church would be better off if we would call a moratorium on activity for about six weeks and just wait on God to see what He is waiting to do for us. That's what they did before Pentecost."   - A. W. Tozer

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