Immigration and the veil
The following comment from the guardian news blog roughly sums up how I feel at the moment:
Let’s ban nuns from wearing their headscarf too, and ban Indians from using the swastika as one of their most important symbols and ban runes because the far right has abused them and lets ban anyone from holding a hammer or a sycle because Stalin killed 30 million plus of his own county men etc etc. I remember a cartoon in the Guardian saying immigrants out. A man held a banner saying “immigrants out” then followed a list - Picts, Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Normans, etc OUT! - where will it end. This island wasn’t even christian til some Irish/Welsh missionaries “rescued” the poor pagans. Leave alone. That’s what I thought the UK was famous for - multicultural acceptance….If someone wants to wear their kilt or morris dancer suit or a Isle of Man triskele let them, this debate makes no sense. i’m even surprised i’ve decided to comment. Leave it alone.
Posted by andinoble on October 6, 2006 06:11 PM.
As far as I can tell it really doesn’t take much digging to find the immigrant past of most British people. Out of my four grandparents two of them had immigrant surnames, Bosman from the Netherlands and Packham from the Normans.
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