Extrme Dhimnitude: Three policewomen spend full day dressed in Muslim burkhas...
Submitted by Administrator on Tue, 08/04/2009 - 08:49
Three female police officers were ordered to dress up as Muslim women for the day just to see what it felt like.
They wore traditional burkhas as part of a scheme designed to help police interact better with the Islamic community.
Two covered their faces with hijab headscarves and niqab veils, leaving only narrow slits to see through, and another wore Muslim dress and a headscarf showing her face. ...More...
It must have been some
It must have been some experience for these cops. It sounds like the experience European women go through when they dress up in Indian saree -- feeling the exotic Hindu culture which Indians take for "greatness of their culture over western culture".
Bur, what has cops to do with appreciation of cultures? Are they going to let a fully burka-clad individual pass through without security check because it violates Islamic culture and religious freedom?