Well maybe they should. Hair like that is unaustralian. Its purulent stench of excessive hair spray and attitude of cynical defiance permeates our clean and temperate Australian air. Defiance not only of gravity, but of our very way of life- our carefree, outdoorsy, sport-loving Australian way of life. Hair like that is for embalmed corpses, for wax-figurines, for the English. Hair like that should be banned. In an ideal society, of course, you don't ban anything. But this hair has been forced upon us, it has been used as an iconic item of defiance of the values Australians hold dear. By its very presence it ensures that our society is no longer 'ideal'.
Of course, if individuals wish to indulge in such hair in the privacy of their own homes, they are welcome to practice their perversity. But when this style is displayed in our very own House of Representatives it becomes an emblem of this cancerous defiance of true blue Australian values, and this is the reason why Bronwyn Bishop's hair should be legislated against.
From the SMH:
Push to ban headscarves divisive: Dems August 28, 2005 - 3:46PM A push to ban Muslim girls from wearing headscarves at state schools was "deliberately divisive", Australian Democrats leader Senator Lyn Allison said today.
Liberal backbencher Bronwyn Bishop has backed the proposal, describing the use of head scarves at public schools as an iconic act of defiance.
Ms Bishop backed the view of outspoken Liberal MP Sophie Panopoulos, who last week said she was concerned about Muslim women not showing their faces when they posed for photographic identification.
But Senator Allison said Ms Bishop's comments encouraged religious and cultural separation.
"I think [Bronwyn Bishop] is being deliberately divisive. I think that it is insensitive that young women for religious reasons who chose to wear a headscarf are somehow provoking a response from others," she said.
"It seems to me that by saying that young people who go to state schools wish to wear a head scarf they can't but they can wear a head scarf if they go to a religious school.
"What that says is that we want to be separated. It doesn't say we want integration and that we want to improve relations between cultural groups and religious groups.
"It says if you are religious, you should go to a religious school.
"I would argue that it's time to examine, not that they are wearing headscarf or not, but examine whether the curriculum is the same, whether girls are being given the same opportunities as boys in those schools."
Ms Bishop today said the issue had been forced upon Australia, which was experiencing a clash of cultures.
"In an ideal society you don't ban anything," she told the Seven Network.
"But this has really been forced on us because what we're really seeing in our country is a clash of cultures and indeed, the headscarf is being used as a sort of iconic item of defiance," she said.
"I'm talking about in state schools. If people are in Islamic schools and that's their uniform, that's fine. In private life, that's fine."
But Maha Krayem Abdo, president of the Muslim Women's Association, said such a ban was dangerous, and that girls should be free to follow their religious beliefs at any Australian school.
She agreed that in an ideal society nothing would be banned and said Australia had a leadership role to play on such issues.
"I think it's so dangerous to go down that path if we think ... that in an ideal society we would not ban anything," she said.
"And I think Australia takes on a leadership role in the world, that it is a fair-go society.
"I don't see anything contravening that fair go and equality that Australia strives for - so the hijab, no way would it in any shape or form, contravene that."
Ms Krayem Abdo said she found it difficult to comprehend the Government's stated support for the freedom of Iraq, yet Ms Bishop's proposition was to prevent Australian Muslims from exercising freedom of religious rights.
Last year France's Parliament voted overwhelmingly to outlaw the wearing of Islamic headscarves in state schools, although concerns remain over whether that decision merely deepened divisions within French society.
The Education Minister, Brendan Nelson, said last week that he did not support a ban on headscarves.
AAP
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lol embalmed corpses
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