A small crowd are gathered in London's Trafalgar square for a protest a few months in the making. It was organised by Facebook personality James Goddard and it plans to have an affect on the controversial subject of banning the Burka, an Islamic religious item that has been heavily in the news.
Although fairly calm, the ‘protest’ became a mockery. Participants, who were dressed head to toe in Burkas themselves, began to ‘pray’ and mumble gibberish , mocking those who wear the Burka and worship the religion it falls under.
Protesters were gathered near the front of Trafalgar Square waiting for the organiser himself to arrive. A Facebook interest of over 2000 , turned out to be a group of 50 plus, men and women.
It wasn't until an hour after the 12pm start time that James finally arrived. with the obvious agenda to stand out I managed to collect a few words from James himself about the march and its reasoning behind the turn out.
Its been banned in Denmark its been banned in France , I think its banned in Morocco as well. I don't think women should be walking around our streets covering their faces and concealing their identity. It’s completely alien to western civilisation.
If you look at places like Iran where women are openly rejecting it, if you look at places like Syria when the territory was liberated from ISIS women were rejecting it so I truly believe it has no place in western civilisation.
This is England, anyone can come and live here I haven't got a problem, but what i’ve got a problem with is when people segregate themselves from our society, It’s not normal.
The end of the day, I believe the burka has no place in our country, this is England, its a Christian country , not a secular state . We should be celebrating our history and we shouldn't be tolerating people who choose to segregate themselves from our society. It’s not Jews , it’s not Hindus , it’s not Sikhs, the main problem is followers of Islam.
