UK: MP quizzed by police after saying 'wearing burkha was like having paper bag over your head'

An MP was investigated by police for inciting racial hatred over controversial comments about the burkha following complaints from a human rights association.

Conservative MP Philip Hollobone said wearing the garment was the religious equivalent of 'going round with a paper bag over your head'.

During a parliamentary debate last month he urged the House of Commons to 'seriously consider' banning the garment.

Now it has emerged police received a complaint about the Kettering MP a few days after his comments from the Northamptonshire Rights and Equality Council (NREC).

Officers rang Mr Hollobone to say a complaint had been made but the Crown Prosecution Service dropped the case a few days later as there were no grounds for prosecution.

Debates in Westminster are protected by parliamentary privilege but Mr Hollobone said the complaint could have related to comments made inside or outside the Commons.

He criticised the 'hypocritical and 'patronising' NREC today for championing freedom of speech while attempting to have him prosecuted.

More like a dirty diaper....metaphorically speaking of course

Agreed...the diaper of a deranged, hysterical and intrinsically-violent, unapologetically brutal and intellectually-unsustainable cult named 'Islam'.

I have heard some Western women say, when they have put on a burkha for the first time, that it is quite a chilling experience when they've considered the breathtaking, inhuman oppression and utterly crushing brutality that goes along with this particular 'garment'.

Yep! And the SECOND thought, is to kill the oppressors with a baseball bat, because shooting is too good for them.

I've offered to let other women try on my burkha - most prefer not to.

I loved that guy. Did you know his Mother was from BAG dad and his father from SACK remento.

Ouch...and I suppose his favorite historical figure was Sack-a-jawea?

That was back when TV was cheesy by design.

I know a lot of British Police officers, (including one quite famous blogger who won a prestigious journalism prize before his bosses found out and pulled the plug) and the common thread I have heard in discussions with them is that they hate being used as Zanu-Labour’s stormtroopers and being made to enforce political correctness. However, as they tell me, Zanu-Labour has essentially removed a police officers ability to use their own discretion when responding to a crime report. If those officers hadn’t rung him up, their superiors would have wanted to know why a reported crime hadn’t been ‘detected’ by the officers, because it would be messing up their government-imposed performance targets.
I know of a fact that most British police officers are not the happy about being the fascist PC enforcers that the government has made them become. The fact that a lot of them are regular visitors to sickipedia.org and share the same sick sense of humour as I do tells me that they are far from politically correct, but are forced to be so by Labour’s stupid policies, if they want to keep their jobs...

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