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The Daily Telegraph’s Luke McIlveen, last week:

If bank robbers had half a clue – and most do not – they would discard the uniform balaclava or motorcycle helmet and embrace the burqa.

It seems the Muslim garment, through which only the eyes can be seen, is the best legal form of identity concealment around.

And the latest news from India:

The Jewellers’ Association of Maharashtra has now asked the police to bar customers wearing veils from entering shops.

“There is a rise in the number of robberies in which veiled customers were involved. In a year, eight to nine such incidents are reported. There is a possibility of two to three veiled gangs operating in the city,” Fatechand Ranka, president of the Jewellers’ Association in Pune was quoted by news agency PTI as saying.

“Due to the veils, these customers cannot be identified by us or police. So we have taken a decision not to allow veiled customers in the shops. And for that, the Association has sought permission in a letter to the state home ministry, state police chief and city police commissioner,” he added.

UPDATE. England is ahead of the curve. This from 2004:

An armed gang wearing burka headdresses escaped with jewellery after a raid on a shop in Halifax.

The three raiders - whose faces were covered by the religious gowns - entered the jewellers in Queen’s Road, Pellon, at 1100 GMT on Monday, asked
to view some gems and then produced a gun …

At least two of the raiders, who fled in a car, are believed to be male.

(Via UK commentators)

Posted by Tim B. on 12/28/2006 at 10:49 AM
  1. But, but, but won’t that create a torrent of raging hormones among male jewelry-store clerks, who will leap over the counters in order to ravish unveiled women?

    Posted by paco on 2006 12 28 at 11:03 AM • permalink

  2. That is so unfair. How are poor, defensless jihadi supposed to scam up cash for their bombs now?

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 12 28 at 11:19 AM • permalink

  3. Muslim leaders will protest against this latest evidence of Islamophobia.  Much confusion will reign over whether they mean the banned burqas or the inability to rob.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 12 28 at 12:09 PM • permalink

  4. I’ve always said that people who hide their faces are up to no good.  Example:  the Ku Kllux Klan.

    Posted by miriams ideas on 2006 12 28 at 12:38 PM • permalink

  5. I’m having trouble seeing our local Leb thugs driving around in their WRXs and Skylines dressed in burqas on the way to robbing the local pub or TAB or bottle shop

    How will the local plod respond I wonder?

    Posted by aussiemagpie on 2006 12 28 at 01:10 PM • permalink

  6. I guess we have to rely on the Ethiopians and the Indians to make our stand against jihad.  Our politicians should take a lesson from them.

    Posted by Patricia on 2006 12 28 at 01:10 PM • permalink

  7. #4: Very true, MI. It used to be the law in North Carolina (may still be) that you can’t wear masks in public; the regulation was passed precisely as an anti-Klan measure.

    Posted by paco on 2006 12 28 at 01:34 PM • permalink

  8. You are not paying attention. What does this all mean? It means a proliferation of uncovered meat!

    When I die, I want to reincarnate as a cat. No danger of extinction there.

    Posted by ElectronPower on 2006 12 28 at 01:40 PM • permalink

  9. #8: I dunno, EP. You might have to watch out for jealous, ululating Mooslims armed with those curved knife thingies.

    Posted by paco on 2006 12 28 at 01:42 PM • permalink

  10. #9: In that case Paco, I’ll tell them, “go ahead, make my day”.

    Posted by ElectronPower on 2006 12 28 at 01:54 PM • permalink

  11. #10: Cool! If you’re talking about that kind of cat . . . well, all right, then.

    Posted by paco on 2006 12 28 at 01:56 PM • permalink

  12. Like I said before, I don’t trust people who cover their faces.

    Posted by Observer on 2006 12 28 at 02:08 PM • permalink

  13. India is now putting the loss of a few thousand rupia(or whatever!) over the virtues and value of diversity and multiculturalism.

    I’m shocked, chagrined and, dare I say it,  more than just somewhat saddened by this most unfortunate of new modalities.

    Posted by yojimbo on 2006 12 28 at 02:35 PM • permalink

  14. Wasn’t there a flap a while back (I believe it might have been here in Virginia), about a Muslim woman who insisted on wearing her veil when they were taking her driver’s license picture? I don’t think she prevailed, but if that kind of thing is ever permitted, I swear the next time I have to get my license renewed, I’m going to walk into the Dept. of Motor Vehicles wearing a Goofy mask.

    Oh, and to spare you all from making the inevitable response, allow me: “So, Paco, how will they know you’re wearing a mask?”

    Posted by paco on 2006 12 28 at 02:50 PM • permalink

  15. I thought it was in Florida.  But with them pushing the envelope everywhere, it wouldn’t surprise me if it happened here. 

    Elizabeth
    Imperial Keeper

    Posted by Elizabeth Imperial Keeper on 2006 12 28 at 03:08 PM • permalink

  16. #15: You’re right, Elizabeth; it was in Florida .

    Posted by paco on 2006 12 28 at 03:16 PM • permalink

  17. Well may you laugh….....  Confronting Muslim males with unveiled females can be messy.  In Al Akaria Mall in Riyadh, it was not unknown for an unveiled Western female to provoke a serious exercise in masturbation by the Saudi sales attendant.  (In Saudi all the sales attendants are males - even in the stores selling ladies underwear). On separate occasions my wife and two of her friends were the objects of such fantasizing.

    Posted by HRT1009 on 2006 12 28 at 04:18 PM • permalink

  18. In Al Akaria Mall in Riyadh . . .

    Boy, I bet it was tough trying to find a HoneyBaked Ham Cafe in that place.

    Posted by paco on 2006 12 28 at 04:41 PM • permalink

  19. Paco.  Further tales from the dark side….......  In the Al Akaria Mall was a coffee shop for females - it had a menu on the wall that listed hamburgers.  During one of my wife’s visits, a Saudi woman read the menu and began screaming the walls down shouting it was an insult to the prophet to sell ham etc, etc.  Such was the intensity of the performance my wife thought it best to leave before the pious one got physical.

    Posted by HRT1009 on 2006 12 28 at 05:05 PM • permalink

  20. #19: Whoa! That’s pretty scary (well, scary AND hilarious). BTW, do the “religious police” walk a beat at that mall?

    Posted by paco on 2006 12 28 at 05:09 PM • permalink

  21. EP, re #10, not wishing to insult your tail or anything… but the “Scream and Leap” bit doesn’t work too well for the Jihadis.
    And some Kzinret resent their place in society, as do many Islamic females.

    Kzin Society is a very thinly disguised form of Wahabbism. Think about it, honour killings, slave species, female oppression..

    On another note, Dogs have masters, Cats have staff, true. But many end up missing bits after seeing the Vet, so be careful what you wish for.

    Then again, considering the op that I had 6 weeks ago (which removed a 4cm pre-cancerous lesion amongst other things) perhaps I shouldn’t talk.

    Posted by Zoe Brain on 2006 12 28 at 05:09 PM • permalink

  22. Kzin Society is a very thinly disguised form of Wahabbism. Think about it, honour killings, slave species, female oppression..

    So if we kill enough of them they’ll get less violent?

    Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 12 28 at 05:15 PM • permalink

  23. HRT1009 : re #19

    Good job the pious bint didn’t see the Hot Dogs on the menu too, right?

    Posted by Zoe Brain on 2006 12 28 at 05:16 PM • permalink

  24. O/T but important.

    There’s an article in the January (US) edition of Esquire that I highly recommend. It’s the story of Sgt Bryan Anderson, who was injured in Iraq and lost both his legs and his left hand.

    I kind of felt guilty. I feel like I took the easy way out, which I know isn’t true, but I wanted to be back there.

    It’s a remarkable story.

    Posted by Ian Deans on 2006 12 28 at 05:53 PM • permalink

  25. Forget about Islam.  ABC RN’s Paul Barry has been fearlessly investigating the Plymouth Brethren who -wait for it - have been caught ‘INTERFERRING in elections’ in New Zealand and may repeat the danger in Australia.
    Gosh, these Christian citizens are putting out legal PAMPHLETS and -shock! - have even done PUSH POLLS.

    Is Paul going to do a book, for sure, on all citizens interferring in politics - say the Greens, Archbishops, Old Age Pensioner Associations.
    We are in a world of dangerous ACTIVISTS - but only the Islamophobes and ‘Pre-Millenial Christians’ are the real problem, apparently.

    Beware those PBs in your midst…

    Posted by Barrie on 2006 12 28 at 06:09 PM • permalink

  26. PBUH, Plymouth Brethren upon him…

    Posted by PW on 2006 12 28 at 06:25 PM • permalink

  27. Luke McIlveen? Wasn’t he hiding out in India trying to uncover shocking examples of NAB outsourcing? The man gets around!

    Posted by TimT on 2006 12 28 at 06:29 PM • permalink

  28. Paco - #20.  Those unlovely thugs, aka the muttawa, aka the religious police did indeed patrol/infest that mall along with every other.  They were true intellectuals.  They blacked out the word Israel from atlases sold in bookstores thereby making Israel a non-country, deleted any clues from the crosswords in Arab News and the Riyadh Daily if they contained the word cross, Hindu, priest etc, and blacked out from Swissair’s brochures the Swiss cross on the tail of their aircraft.

    Posted by HRT1009 on 2006 12 28 at 06:31 PM • permalink

  29. #28, gotta give a man a job.

    Personally, in the virtual world, I’d press the delete key.

    Posted by mareeS on 2006 12 28 at 07:19 PM • permalink

  30. #24, excellent article.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 12 28 at 07:20 PM • permalink

  31. #28:

    What, they didn’t outlaw crosswords altogether?

    Posted by PW on 2006 12 28 at 08:04 PM • permalink

  32. #25 You’re right, Barrie.  We’re ignoring the real threat.

    Posted by anthony_r on 2006 12 28 at 08:17 PM • permalink

  33. #20, Paco, and anyone who wants to know more about the repulsive muttawa, check out muttawa.blogspot.com.

    The (hilarious) guy who wrote it has departed for the climes of historical novel-writing, but the blog remains. Great writing, great reading.

    Posted by carpefraise on 2006 12 28 at 08:24 PM • permalink

  34. #19.  I thought they were called “hamburgers” because they were first sold in Hamburg?

    What next?  Will they start screaming about hot dogs because dogs are unclean?  Does this mean I can’t eat a hot dog in a taxi if the driver is Muslim?

    Posted by mr creosote on 2006 12 28 at 08:54 PM • permalink

  35. ‘thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason,and teeming mischief’s beneath thy shade’ -Aaron Hill

    Mr Hill’s three hundred years old words might usefully be included in police training manuals

    (and on big banners in British airport security staff-rooms)

    Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 28 at 09:32 PM • permalink

  36. And similarly, cheeseburgers were first served in Cheeseburg.

    Posted by triticale on 2006 12 28 at 10:04 PM • permalink

  37. Speaking of food, it is common practice for muslim husbands to bring in the first veiled wife to an all you can eat restaurant and then when the first is done, she will go outside to “powder her nose” and then come back with a vengeful appetite three times over.

    Any takers for all you can eat?

    Posted by EvilK on 2006 12 28 at 10:35 PM • permalink

  38. I believe Australia inherited an old British law, still on our books in the 1950s, that allowed citizens to shoot on sight anyone in a hooded disguise. Such disguise was popular with criminals at the time and the law was intended to reduce their numbers. It also made life difficult for monks.
    Anybody out there know if it’s still legal for us to shoot disguised villains on sight?

    #23 Zoe. How about spotted dick?

    Posted by Skeeter on 2006 12 28 at 11:08 PM • permalink

  39. #36 the local delicassy of Rotenburg never really took off

    Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 28 at 11:17 PM • permalink

  40. Found this youtube video of a service station being robbed by a gang wearing Burkas

    Veiled gang robbing a service station

    [The troll’s video has now been replaced by a video of my cat. Enjoy. The Management.]

    Posted by grate on 2006 12 29 at 01:11 AM • permalink

  41. And another NSFW warning for our determined troll at #40…

    Posted by PW on 2006 12 29 at 01:20 AM • permalink

  42. Veils are useful for concealing your identity whilst committing crimes.  Most of all they are useful for a laugh.

    Posted by anthony_r on 2006 12 29 at 04:47 AM • permalink

  43. #42, rebase: and then they spend the rest of the evening out with a cloth saturated with speghetti sauce across their face?

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 12 29 at 01:20 PM • permalink

  44. #42: That was great, Rebase! I loved the guy in the background, surreptitiously checking out the technique.

    Posted by paco on 2006 12 29 at 02:00 PM • permalink

  45. The Islamic ladies around here at least have some common sense.  They veil when out walking, but unveil at work.  They veil when going to mosque, but unveil when driving.

    Of course, common sense is the commodity most lacking upon the earth.

    Posted by ushie on 2006 12 29 at 05:05 PM • permalink

  46. The Imam said son, what is your alibi
    If you’re a good Muslim, then you won’t have to die
    I spoke not a word, though it meant my life
    I had pretended to be, my best friends wife

    I walk with heels in a long black veil
    I mourn for my nads when the night winds wail
    Nobody knows, nobody sees
    Nobody knows but Habib

    Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2006 12 29 at 11:03 PM • permalink

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