More on the Syrian Niqab ban

Syria's Minister of Education, Giath Barakat, has given his reasons for banning the niqab from university campuses throughout the country:


"طلابنا هم أبنائنا لن نتركهم عرضة لأفكار والعادات المتطرفة", مشيدا بـ "أخلاق المجتمع السوري الذي اثبت على مر العصور الوعي والقدرة على التصدي للكثير من العادات السيئة وشارك بفاعلية وجدية في ضد حملات الغزو المنظمة

"Our students are our children and we will not leave them vulnerable to radical ideas" and he called upon the "morals of Syrian society which have proven over the passage of time a maturity and capacity in dealing with many bad habits and has been effective against organised invasion campaigns"


I suggest Dr Barakat starts by banning subversive television series' like Bab el Hara where all the women in these sinister historical dramas are shown to be wearing the niqab or "mlayeh" as some Syrians with false consciousness used to call it. Apparently these foreign ideas have been bubbling away in Syria for over 1000 years, ever since these subversives came in with their camels under their bloodthirsty general Khaled Bin Waleed. Thank God (can I still say that?) that we now have Dr Barakat to save our robust Syrian morality from this foreign invasion. Somebody should remind the good Minister of Education that we kicked the French out of our country over sixty years ago and that this is Syria, heart of the Arab and Islamic world, not France or Germany.

Elsewhere in the article he said he responded to calls by "concerned parents" who were worried about the influx of these women in neqabs who had joined the universities "under the pretext of getting an education". Yes, because it's inconceivable that these barbarians would actually be interested in learning anything to better their lives or futures. I mean look at them, they're following some kind of subversive and sinister ideology which is telling them they aren't allowed to steal, cheat, sleep around, smoke, do drugs, or drink. They should even work hard and think independantly according to these radicals. Apparently their Mullahs are telling them that they must seek knowledge, but we all know this is certainly a coded instruction to go and radicalise our delicate Syrian flowers with their corrupting ideas.

What on earth is a man like him doing as the Syrian Minister of Education, and what on earth is it his business telling students what to wear? Will he take a similar stance if, for example, concerned parents came to him asking him to ban the wearing of tight jeans by girls? Or do the precious morals of his Syrian society only go one way?

Click here to see what average Syrians on the Shabab Syria discussion forum think about this ignorant decision.