Germany: Burka ban to be proposed in security clampdown

[JackRiddler]

19. None in recent attacks called "terrorist."

(In Europe.)

It's completely superfluous as a means of disguise, given there are a jillion other ways to disguise a person or weapons. Female bombers (there haven't been any in Germany or Western Europe recently that I know of) have usually dressed to fit in = "normal" dress. As you see from the other responses, this is about imaginations running riot, as if the burka is some kind of special threat compared to a baggy dress or a backpack or a... vehicle. Oh yeah, vehicles. Can you hide shit in there?

Ridiculous.

There have been three attacks in Germany with any kind of possible Islamist background, all of which appear to be the work of young male individuals on their own, stochastically inspired. (That does not include the big massacre in Munich, which was not Islamist and entirely on the "Columbine" model.)

The proposal self-evidently has no value in preventing attacks, it is a matter of culture war from a Christian conservative politician (de Maiziere) on Merkel's right who's trying to throw red-meat at his East German constituency, fearing the AfD. (Not that I'm pro burqua but prohibition is not the way to go.)