Today Pauline Hanson wore a burqa into the Senate to insult Muslim people everywhere and draw attention to her bill that would ban women from wearing burqas in Parliament House. This is despite nobody in parliament being able to ever recall an instance where a woman wearing a burqa has appeared in Parliament House.
Her point (supposedly) is that women wearing burqas are dangerous and scary and a threat to us all. Pauline? We beg to disagree. In approximately two minutes, we crowd sourced the Mamamia Office and came up with this list of things far scarier than a woman wearing a burqa. We could have made a list four times as long but here are our top 142 things:
1. Donald Trump being President.
2. Pulling out your tampon and two coming out.
3. Steve Banon.
4. Play School.
5. Wondering whether you’ll have to stand all the way to work on the train when you’re eight months pregnant.
6. White Supremacists.
7. Stepping off the curb in a dream and falling indefinitely.
8. The person at the desk next to you having the flu.
9. When you get a notification that your mum shared something with you on Facebook.
10. When you check Insta and no one liked your pic.
11. This month’s electricity bill.
Top Comments
People seem to be missing a vital point here. While it's obviously not legislated in Australia that women wear a Burqa, many women who do wear one here have zero choice. The perception from the left that burqa wearing Muslims in Australia enjoy freedoms to choose is a massive fallacy. Many of these women are as isolated and suppressed as women in Saudi Arabia etc, which is what we should be discussing. It gets a little tiring seeing interviews with Susan Carland and other outspoken (extremely progressive) Muslims, most people don't have an issue with moderate Islam at all . Instead, let's explore the lives of women like Moutia Elzahed, and those associated with convicted terrorists. It would be fascinated to hear there thoughts on women's rights, roles and their "choice" to wear the burqa.
I thought it was great comedy. Laughed for hours whenever I thought of it. The looks on the faces of the other senators, her walking in, everything.
You have to admit, politics isn't boring anymore.