I find Ms. Hausegger to be threatening, supremacist, and utterly dehumanized. Clearly she must be banned in order to protect the Australian society we have worked so hard to cultivate over all these years. Perhaps this could be done though the immigration program.

It’s not a religious obligation. The requirements are clearly outlined in the Quran and they don’t come close to encouraging niqab. Scholars dispute it, Turkey & Egypt have niqab bans in place for certain areas of society.

We have the right to choose what we wear as long as it doesn’t pose a risk, threat or negatively affects the wider social good. People are threatened by a niqab, it has a multitude of ways that it can be used in a criminal manner, people don’t like them here.

The point is that people are meant to integrate into society and contribute positively, when it starts becoming about religious labels, mesh fences blocking people from being able to interact with you on a basic human level, then it is a good idea to ban it.

It’s a sign of extremism, political Islam and has no place in Australia. There are reasons why general facial coverings are banned, this is a progressive society and no one is forced to stay here. I would join the rally. I am a travelled person, I have been to many of the traditionally regarded ‘Islamic countries’…

I don’t have a problem with Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, just be pro-active in being committed to this society and stop behaving in ways that prevent everyone feeling safe, happy and calm.

Wearing a niqab makes more people uneasy and the reason has little to do with the fabric or the religion, but a more basic human need to be able to identify with each other through facial recognition. It’s a very very basic human instinct, which is why it was never in the Quran, Allah (swt) created us this way, it’s ridiculous that people then do things that go against what has been made for us to socialize and better ourselves.

Stop following false teachings, think about the bigger picture and promote an honest, true Islam.

Having said that, little birdy told me said journo may be pumping for pre-selection for a Liberal seat. So she may be doing a desperate Pauline Hanson-Sophie Panopolos-Bronwyn Bishop-please-notice-me bid to establish her creds with the the ultra-conservative Liberal right. Time will tell I guess.

As for impacting on foreign authoritarian regimes, are you not the Ummah? If jihadis are able to stir the Ummah in foreign countries into action and slaughter and rioting over rumours of cartoons and whispers of insults to Qurans, surely 1.3 billion Muslims, all connected by Islam, can have some impact on the misery of their fellows at the hands of their fellows? I don’t have much influence over foreign authoritarian regimes either but it didn’t stop me participating to the best of my ability in opposing the invasion of Iraq. Much good it did, but still.