“I don’t care if it is prejudiced. In my culture one on one conversations are carried out with the face in full view.”

I must confess I’m unfamiliar with that particular bit of Western proper etiquette.

The fact still remains that a woman wearing a veil doesn’t mean any disrespect to you and yet you will use her clothing to disrespect her.

“Turning your back” during a conversation is not religiously mandated and if somebody does that, they intend to offend you.

The lady who is wearing the niqab in a restaurant is not wearing it because she wants to offend you; she wears it to please her Lord. If in doubts about her intentions, why not ask her, “Hey you! Do you want to offend me by covering your face or do you do it religiously?” I think you already her answer.

Now, I don’t plan to get into a diatribe with you (a standard atheist’s next move) where you would start telling me why wearing a niqab is not religiously mandated. We are NOT trying to establish if a niqab is religiously mandated by Islam or not; we ARE trying to see what that lady’s intentions were and it was certainly not rudeness.

I don’t care if it is prejudiced. In my culture one on one conversations are carried out with the face in full view. If I turned my back to you if we were holding a conversation would you regard that as good manners?

I have no desire to hold a conversation with somebody who lacks the good manners to uncover their face.

AJ, you keep banging on about my “hate and bigotry”, please provide some evidence.

I believe in equal rights for all, you don’t, it’s as simple as that.

@AJ, I live in a free society, I don’t hate anybody just because they might belive in something. You don’t live in a free society. Please don’t paint me with your brush.

@AJ, I don’t hate anybody because of their religion, I am not sure how many times I have to say that

@Nuralia, “About the niqab thing. I still dont belive you about the spegetti, but that is not my point her”

That’s good because I never mentioned spaghetti. I have never seen a woman in a niqab eating spaghetti.

“We are ONLY asking about a point of jurisprudance…nothing else”

That point of jurisprudence is of no consequence where I live, it means nothing. I don’t hate any woman in a niqab, i dislike the niqab, not the person

@AJ, “I can not control what others do”
Really? Do you go to the mosque in Saudia Arabia where you live? Do you speak up that the national religion is wrong?

Steve…

Perhaps you dont seem to understand that, when your freedom depends on what someone else does, you become a slave to that person.

So…if an American’s right to build a house of worship on American soil depends on the right of someone else building a house of worship on the soil of another country…you have given up your freedom to chose up, and based it on someone elses actions.

Steve…lets understand…that governments do not GIVE the right to exist, or to express ourselves freely…the PROTECT our right to do those things.

AJ, you choose to live in one of the most repressive countries in the world where freedom of religion is illegal, what are you doing to change that? It’s easy to throw around the word bigot because somebody doesn’t agree with everything you want them to agree with but to choose to live in a repressive anti-humanity regime when you actually have the choice not to is far more telling.

As for the woman in the niqab I don’t recall ever saying I hated her, I don’t know her, so how could I hate her? I said I found it sad that her children couldn’t see her face, I said I found it ridiculous she had to eat by putting a fork up inside a flap of cloth, I said I find the whole face covering nonsense to be distasteful and that I wouldn’t enter into a one on one conversation with somebody who refused to uncover their face.

AJ, why is there no movement for freedom of religion in Saudi Arabia? Why don’t you start a movement for freedom of religion in Saudi Arabia? How about hindus or atheists entering mecca and medina?

I find people covering their faces in public places such as restaurants to be very rude. I tolerated the woman, I didn’t do anything to prevent her from wearing a niqab as she was perfectly within her rights to wear one here. We have freedom of religion here.

County files appeal in Murfreesboro mosque case
http://www.murfreesboropost.com/breaking-news-county-files-appeal-in-murfreesboro-mosque-case-cms-31610

On Thursday, Rutherford County officials filed a notice to appeal a local judge’s ruling that voided approval for construction of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro.

In May, Chancellor Robert Corlew III ruled the Planning Commission failed to provide adequate public notice prior to approving a site plan proposal to build the Islamic Center, which subsequently led to opponents filing an injunction request to stop construction.

On June 13, Corlew granted a partial injunction blocking Rutherford County officials from issuing the Islamic Center an occupancy certificate, which would allow use of the mosque, because his previous decision voided authorization for construction.

According to court documents, county attorneys questioned whether requiring the Planning Commission to treat the Islamic Center differently than other religious organizations violates the U.S. Constitution and Tennessee Constitution.

The move comes one week after the Rutherford County Commission voted to appeal the ruling.

The irony of the situation is that this guy, based upon his name, is perhaps an immigrant and a minority himself and should be more sympathetic to people like him.