The Burqa

[Pete999]

Having moved to Saudi Arabia when I was one-and-a-half and living there for nearly eight years I personally have no problem with people wearing clothing and don't really think banning it is either warranted or productive.

That's not really what my post was about, I to have no problem with folk following their customs, my problem arose from the vitriolic abuse in a language I had no understanding of aimed in my direction for a gentlemanly gesture, still I suppose I should know better at my age and with my experience of overseas travel, must have gone around with my eyes shut, not.

 

[Risteard]

That's not really what my post was about, I to have no problem with folk following their customs, my problem arose from the vitriolic abuse in a language I had no understanding of aimed in my direction for a gentlemanly gesture, still I suppose I should know better at my age and with my experience of overseas travel, must have gone around with my eyes shut, not.

I know Pete, but it's probably not fair to equate being verbally chastised with what they were wearing.

 

[Pete999]

I know Pete, but it's probably not fair to equate being verbally chastised with what they were wearing.

I agree Risteard, but it was disconcerting and the other people in the lift were shocked, but you tend to catagorise people from experience, and I have had plenty, working in these countries a lot, my remit was to abide by the laws of the land, BUT? and there begs the question.