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E-mailAn Australian Muslim woman was denied entrance on a bus by the driver who requested that he needed to see her face before she got on because “sorry, it’s the law.”
The woman was wearing the niqab dress that covers the hair and lower face:
The driver told her “You can’t get on the bus wearing your mask” and that “you have to show me you face.”
The woman protested that it wasn’t the law, and that there wasn’t a “difference between me and that lady sitting there who chooses to not wear what I’m wearing.”
After a heated argument, the driver relented and allowed her on board.
Bus operator Hillsbus said the driver is being questioned over the incident.
The bus company, Hillsbus, said the driver was being questioned over the claims.
“We are investigating it and doing that as quickly as we can. We need to get to the bottom of it, work out what happened and what went on, and what we need to do about it,” a Hillsbus spokesperson stated.
Relations between Australia’s Muslims - 1.7% of the population - and the majority Christians have sometimes been tense and violence actually erupted in the 2005 Cronulla Beach riots against Lebanese Australians.
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However, going monkey in civilised world adds a little civilisation to hijab-wearers.
Yash
Please see it for your self that its the Lebanese Muslims who are violent anti social and racist against the Indian people as well as everybody else!
Racism seems to me to be a fact of life in every part of the world, in every culture, country and religion - but having said that I also think it is slowely shrinking too, as people become friends around the world through the internet, migration, travel and mixed marraiges.
The world is shrinking - so by empowering people with knowledge and education it helps to dispell old fears about our differences - towards a greater understanding for each other, it can only get better in time.
As a 4th/5th generation Australian who grew up with migrant children, I enjoyed making friends with kids who couldn’t speak english and was fascinated by the difference’s especially the variety of foods, but kids don’t discriminate or understand racism - that sadly is learnt later on.
It is really ugly in countries established by land-grabbing, and diminishing this pattern by making the friends sounds like a naïve wish rather than “multicultural” reality of Australia, for instance.
I try to refrain from commenting on Marco Villa’s posts not of their usually pro-islamist inclination, but I simply see no his commenting on my posts. However, his articles are so provocatively-attractive that it is hard to abstain. Or, I am not so hard to follow own intention.
Abstaining from the commenting is not the solution. It provides validity to the views. Rather we should counter it logically as we know what's right and what's wrong.
Has one any story-link (URL) or we should assume such a riding-stint as a fact of an Australian life which is a next routine ”xenophobic outburst” towards “vulnerable and defenceless” at a bus in this case?
Would, for instance, the Papuans in their traditional outfits which is-sorry, I do not know this exact word -
a horn used to only accommodate family jewels, have been allowed into a bus (or somewhere) wherever round a globe outside their own Highland Region? Surely, these lads look not worse than Sacha Cohen’s Bruno at any merit...
Does advocating hijab outside a place of its origin have a special consideration towards the Papuan traditional clothes? And, “what is write and what is wrong” from such a notion mentioned-please, let these advocates explain.
Thats the law!
I feel for the bus driver as many of them have been attacked - how does he know if she is going to rob him or not or even if he is a she?
If one has nothing to hide them why hide behind a mask!
Even we have Muslims in hijabs in India, and they are known to steal from shops and put it under those loose flowing garbs! The point is how well-treated are they in their own countries. For instance, in Pakistan, Afghanistan and possibly in the UAE, women cannot travel alone, unless accompanied by a male relative. They should be grateful that in the West they have that freedom. And I would like to know what consideration they show other women who come into their countries. The non-muslims are forced to wear a head scarf and be fully clothed from head to toe with no display of wrists or ankles! So where’s the fair play?