Australia Senator Wears Full Burka in Parliament

At Disneyland last week I saw a woman going around the park in a full burka, specifically with the niqab, the facial veil the covers everything except the eyes. And I'm thinking, did she have to take that off to get her picture taken? You see, when you buy your park ticket now, they scan the barcode on the ticket and take your picture. So, when you leave the park or come back in, or cross over from California Adventures to the old Disneyland, they scan the barcode and your picture pops up on the handheld device. It's really awesome technology. I noticed some of the staff don't even look at the picture, but then another (older gentleman) scanned our tickets and was very carefully looking at the mug shots.

I think it's great!

But, then there's the question? Did the lady have to take off her niqab? My wife said they just probably took the photo with the niqab on, but then anyone could put on that niqab and use her ticket to get into the park, which defeats the purpose of the technology.

In any case, this piece, at NYT, got me thinking:

A senator shocked Australia’s Parliament after appearing in a full-body burqa and advocating for its ban https://t.co/abbZ99WRZA

— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) August 17, 2017

GRAPHIC: Al-Nusra Front, #ISIS Ally, Amputates Hands of Accused Thieves in Al-Bukamal Countryside, Syria

Seeing the writing on the wall --- and no doubt hoping to avoid annihilation (beheadings, crucifixions) at the hands of ISIS --- Syria's al-Nusra Front formed an alliance with al-Qaeda's rampaging jihadist army in Iraq. See Daniel Greenfield, at FrontPage Magazine, "Al Qaeda in Syria/Iraq Doubles in Size as ISIS and Al Nusra Kiss and Make Up."

Previously, al-Nusra had rejected ISIS and swore fealty to Ayman al-Zawahiri. But as I noted previously, it's not so much doctrinal differences but leadership splinters that separate these groups. And you'd be hard pressed to find more extreme brutality anywhere in the new caliphate emerging across Eastern Syria and Western Iraq.

At Blazing Cat Fur (warning graphic), "Devout Muslims Cut Off Hands of Two Accused Thieves in Syria."

Geert Wilders' Canadian Tour!

Blazing Cat Fur might be posting some video later.

In the meanwhile, see Sun News, "Keep Islamic ideology out of Canada":

TORONTO - Canada should ban Islamic schools, outlaw the wearing of burkas and put a stop to the building of mosques, a controversial Dutch politician said on Monday during a stop at SUN News Network.

If Canada wants to protect its democratic freedoms and Western beliefs, it must act now and keep "Islamic ideology" outside of Canada's borders, said Geert Wilders, leader of Holland's Freedom Party, during an interview on The Source with Ezra Lavant.

"If (Muslims) want to have Islamic culture, (they should) stay in the country where (they) came from," said Wilders, who is doing his first-ever speaking tour of Canada. "There is no moderate Islam... There is no good part of the Qur'an."

Wilders has also called for the ban of the Qur'an - Islam's holy book - in Holland and other democratic countries, likening it to Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf.

In Toronto to speak at Canada Christian College Monday night, Wilders called Islam an "ideology of hate" and said there is only one kind of Islam - a radical one.

Throughout the interview, Wilders kept coming back to one of his core beliefs: Islam is not a religion, it's an ideology of "totalitarian" philosophy, intolerant of any other religion or viewpoint.

RELATED: At National Post, "Islam a threat to Western freedom: Wilders." And from Jonathan Kay, "Geert Wilders’ problem with Islam."