Quote Originally Posted by WES View Post
Ah, that. Yes, I would -unusually - agree with you that it was very stupid.

Mostly because women covering their heads in any form just isn't worth the fight, not at this point. Let them wear what they want regardless of the motivation and focus on improving integration. If we win that battle, with time, the head covering will disappear.

All it does now is create conflict and get the Islamophobia cretins like Mehdi Hassan in an uproar.
Hilarious that you imagine we can 'integrate' with a culture that sets out quite deliberately to ensure that its womenfolk can't even be seen by anyone, let alone 'integrate' with them. The whole notion of integration with Islam is ridiculously stupid, since it grandly assumes that Islamic society actually wants to integrate with ours despite the fact that pretty much everything it has done over the last 30-40 years has made it abundantly clear that it does not.

Integration, ffs!

And Boris's comments are very deliberate. They are designed to mark him out in the leadership campaign as not just another bland, corporate placeholder, toeing the politically-correct line and parroting the PC orthodoxies (like May), but someone who is prepared to say the controversial thing and will confront the uncomfortable truths.