From now, onwards women in burqa would now have to reveal their face in order to disclose their identities at the UK airport.

The immigration officials made such a move after it assumed that a suspected police killer might have escaped from the nation dressed as a Muslim woman.

However, the move has created a spark among the community according to whom, it would impose unbearable demands on their members, particularly female officers who would be the only ones allowed looking under veils.

Previously, the officers used to wave off passengers without scrutinizing because of the shortage of time but the recent incident where, an asylum seeker Mustaf Jama who was wanted for the murder of Pc Sharon Beshenivsky escaped using her sister’s passport created a very critical situation for them.

Thus, authorities came out with the idea, which would legally entitle them to ask any female passenger to lift her veil in order to verify her identity against passport photographs.

In order to stress the idea, Prime Minister Tony Blair said,

‘We must find methods of allowing people to take off the veil in a way that’s dignified.’

Personally, I feel that all must be equal under the eye of law and disclosing ones, identity at the airports shouldn’t be a tough job for the women folk.

After all, it is the question of our social security; moreover, the authorities have no hassles if they remain in the clad during their stay. So I guess, there shouldn’t be any kind of fuss over the issue.

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