Rara Avis: "A Bird in a Burka Wearing a Poppy"

Richard Littlejohn doesn't think much of the head-to-toe chick shroud:

I think the pretty headscarfs many Muslim women choose to wear are simply delightful, no more threatening than the Flo Capp headgear our mothers and grandmothers used to put on when they were doing the housework or heading outdoors in the rain.

Burkas are, however, a whole different order. They are a statement of rejection, of isolation from mainstream society. They are also, it would appear, a handy disguise for male terrorism suspects on the run.

I’m with Ken Clarke when he says that women should not be allowed to wear the full-face veil in court because it is difficult to give evidence from inside ‘a kind of bag’.

What always amuses me is the way in which so-called ‘liberal feminists’ contort themselves to defend the right of Muslim women to wear the burka. They try to pretend it’s somehow ‘racist’ or ‘anti-Islamic’ to ban the burka.

Women who opt to hide their ‘modesty’ in these ridiculous sackcloth bin-liners are no less patriotic than the rest of us, they insist.

Oh, yeah?

When I see a bird in a burka wearing a poppy, I might just agree with them.