Swiss Train Staff Facing Faceless Quandary?

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Suppose you’re a ticket inspector on a Swiss train and you come across the nightmarish creature in the photo above.
I use the bag-head photo simply because it was included in the media report that led me to write on today’s cause for concern – apparently it’s ‘Nora Illi, the women’s representative of an unofficial group called the Islamic Central Committee of Switzerland.’
Well, it might be her, but then again, it might be me!
Or anyone else who had stolen, borrowed or otherwise acquired the scary shrouded person’s rail-card.
Obviously, you, as an inspector, have the right to see the face behind the sectarian shroud, so you can do your job and compare it to the likeness on the card.
NOT so!
Incredibly, we read that –
The Swiss government hopes to introduce a new law that would make it illegal for people to refuse to uncover their face when asked to do so by government officials, transport staff or privately-contracted ticket inspectors.
Huh?
Switzerland’s federal authorities are only NOW looking at passing legislation to give public sector officials the right to require compliance, at least in the fields of immigration and a few others, like aviation and rail transport? https://www.thelocal.ch/20180628/swiss-government-outlines-counterproposal-to-burqa-ban,
So meanwhile, burka bints, and anyone else skulking behind a mask, can simply refuse to show their faces?
Time indeed to fix this, and a mere fine, as envisaged, is hardly an adequate penalty for recalcitrant refusal.
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Hosking 14:06 on March 31, 2019 Permalink |
Anybody who wants to look like that should move to the EuroDisney Haunted House in Paris.
I’m joking of course.
There’s no place anywhere in Europe for these women ( and their husbands) who want to live their miserable lives in submission to codes that should have died out centuries ago.
Unmask or get out, that’s a fair choice to offer them.
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Del Vallon 22:18 on March 31, 2019 Permalink |
The Swiss people are still pretty down to earth and have got no time for multuculturalism. They have been a four-language four-culture country since hundreds of years sgo, but none of them wants to add alien cultures to the mix.
The problem is that apart from the SVP, the big parties have bought into the soft option, even on extremely offensive intrusions like the burqa.
What is very dangerous is that the same big parties are trying to obstruct Swiss direct democracy and prevent the people making decisions.
You wrote about that before and should write about that again.
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John Lochard 15:29 on April 1, 2019 Permalink |
I spent a year there and In my opinion, Switzerland is a lot safer than Germany. It’s like Germany used to be before Merkel ruined the country. The Swiss won’t stand for cheek and the police are not under orders to put up with stroppy migrants.
Even so, there are too many unacceptable aliens for most Swiss. I am referring to the bad kind, not foreigners who show respect and fit in and do honest work and are usually made welcome.
It’s the others who cause problems. I think you know about the Winterthur mosque scandal as well as that group who objected so much to Swiss identity that they wanted the flag changed.
That’s the reason so many Swiss have been getting militant.
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Keith Milner 07:59 on April 1, 2019 Permalink |
We have too many women ( though we can never be sure they are women) in Australia.
The government should ban wearing masks in public, except on Halloweeen!
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Uncle Oz 09:31 on April 1, 2019 Permalink |
I would pay my own fare for the privilege!
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Uncle Oz 15:00 on April 1, 2019 Permalink |
Oh, beg pardon, Ross.
That comment was meant to be about helping hang the ISIS gang!
But while I’m back at your blog again, I agree with what Keith says on this.
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Stan D 14:54 on April 1, 2019 Permalink |
Just don’t let them on the trains or the buses.
Seeing things like that on public transport is frightening for young children and unsettling for all respectable passengers.
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Madge Allason 20:54 on April 1, 2019 Permalink |
Stan, I wish more people would say what you say, about the effect these horrible looking things have on children.
Some people never know what its like walking the kids to school or the shops and being faced with something like a ghoul or a goblin all in black.
These women should be banned from appearing in public dressed like that.
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