Philly Cop Killed: Time to Ban the Burqa from Planck's Constant

Hijab Wearing Bank Robber In N.C.
Photo Credit: Crusader

Suppose we lived in a world where there was a religion that required the faithful to carry an AK-47 in public similar to the Sikh wearing of daggers (known as kirpans); would we bend over backwards to accommodate that religion even at the peril of our lives? It happens with Islam. The weapon: a mask to thwart identification and evade capture. In Islam the mask is called a niqab (face-veil) attached to a burqa (body cover).

Yesterday, the Gateway Pundit [now defunct blog] told us that Burka-Clad Bank Robbers Killed a Policeman in Philadelphia. We so cower before Muslim intimidation that we allow women, or it could be men, to cover themselves from head to toe in disguise.

Muslim apologists will argue that allowing someone to wear a Burqa is not the same as allowing them to carry an AK-47. Actually it is, since one would have no problem entering a bank with an AK-47 hidden under that garment. One of the disadvantages from openly carrying a weapon into a bank is that one can be spotted from the outside and the police can be alerted or that one is spotted as he or she enters with the weapon and an alarm is either given or the guard on duty can draw his weapon in response.

Truth be told, it would be safer to allow AK-47s to be openly carried but ban the wearing of burqas. Here's why: If we ban the burqa but allow weapons then at least we have some warning that a person is entering the bank with a weapon and we have the advantage of being able to identify the culprits and cut short their bank robbing careers. If we ban weapons but allow Burqas then the robbers can conceal their weapons and their identity. Allowing burqas in public then is the same as allowing AK-47s and masks to be warn in public and how stupid is that? It should be noted that the police officer killed in the lead story was shot with a military assault rifle. Wonder how they hid that before they entered the bank?

This isn't the first time: Another Use for the Multi-Purpose Burqa, Missed a Bank Robber by 20 Minutes, Police seek burqa-wearing bank robber, Probe after second burka robbery, and so many more it's pointless to list.

Almost 16 months back Daniel Pipes chronicled dozens and dozens of criminal incidents involving Muslim garb in The Niqab and Burqa as Security Threats: the niqab and burqa should both be banned on security grounds, "as one cannot have faceless persons walking the streets, driving cars, or otherwise entering public spaces."

Burka Bandit Robs Bank
Officials aren't sure whether they are looking for a man or woman after a bank robbery.
Source: WSOC
October 19, 2007

As much as I want to see a ban on the wearing of a burqa in public there is one exception which we should allow, I am not, after all, a completely heartless person: