Beekeepers across France are organizing an official protest against a new law which prevents people from wearing face-covering veils in public and at work.
Newsthump (H/T Lesley) – Since the law came into force many beekeepers have been left without the protection upon which they rely, leading to many horrific sting-related injuries. As one beekeeper told us through an interpreter, “The veil is an essential part of who I am.”
“Just because you don’t feel comfortable around someone with a significant amount of material covering their face is no reason to ban it.” “Beekeepers have worn veils for generations. It’s part of our culture, and we won’t stand for this ban.”
A large number of Muslim women are supporting the beekeepers in their protest, insisting they too should be able to wear a face-covering veil in public. A spokesman for the Muslim Womens Association of France told us, “You know the French, they’ll take one look at the faces of our women and start to masturbate immediately – I guarantee it.” (Yeah, right)
“The veil isn’t about using medieval practises to oppress our women, it’s about all the perverts out there that would knock one out at the first sight of a Muslim woman’s nose.” “We’re doing it to protect them. Yes, really.” (Uh huh)
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haahahaha beekeepers are just the funniest thing i ever heard! ninja beekeepers! hahaha
Obviously the French didn’t take care to write their anti-veil ban properly!! Occupations like bee-keeping obviously MUST be exempted from these regulations when the bee-keepers are at work.
A similar situation happened all over the European-Union a few years ago when the use of lead was tightly-restricted on account of its danger to health: since pipe-organbuilding uses a LOT of lead, especially with the speaking-pipes, banning that metal would cripple that industry to a huge extent (including having to remake a giant number of pipes in organ-installations across the continent – affecting a LOT of historical pipework in museum-type organs). Naturally, an exception was made for that industry. [Most metal organ-pipes are made from varying alloys of lead and tin. Some are also made of wood (which is more often used for wind-trunking, reservoirs and wind-chests as well as mechanical connections between playing-keys and pipes with certain instruments), but metal is used in the bulk of cases, especially for smaller pipes. Sometimes copper or zinc is also used; but the overwhelming majority of the time, it's the tin/lead alloys that do the job.]
the muslim women looks better then the girl or women in the burkini. i wish muslims were all over america
stja, the only reason you think that is because your parents are first cousins. Moron.