Is Zia Yusuf Blocking Reform UK's Burqa Ban?

Yesterday, Sarah Pochin MP used her maiden question in the House of Commons to ask Keir Starmer,

“Given the Prime Minister’s desire to strengthen strategic alignment with our European neighbours, will he—in the interests of public safety—follow the lead of France, Denmark, Belgium and others, and ban the burqa?”

This morning, Reform UK Chairman, Zia Yusuf took to X to respond to Katie Hopkins, who asked,

Dear @ZiaYusufUK

Mohammed. A @reformparty_uk ‘spokesperson’ says a burka ban is NOT party policy.

This you at work again, Mo?

What next? Sarah Pochin threaten you in the office? Need to report her to the police? 👮

Burka ban MUST be party policy @reformparty_uk

Yusuf said a burqa ban is not party policy, and that,

I do think it’s dumb for a party to ask the PM if they would do something the party itself wouldn’t do.

Why is Yusuf disparaging another of Reform's MPs, after calling the police on Rupert Lowe?

Why rule out a policy that would be popular with both Reform members and the public?

In 2016, YouGov found that 57 percent of Brits polled supported “a law that bans people from wearing the burqa in the UK”. Only 10 percent were “strongly opposed” — a small constituency of Muslims and delusional progressives who would never vote for Reform anyway.

The last thing Brits want, and Reform needs, is to go soft on the reprehensible, repressive, and unassimilable customs of Islam.

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The attitude toward women in Islam is incompatible with the Christian customs of England. We confer upon men and women an equal capacity for moral dignity, and afford them equal protection under the law.

As I wrote in a recent essay on the threat posed by Muslim immigration to the British way of life for Courage Media:

Many regard Britain’s women and children as commodities, too. In 2023, I helped break the story that smuggling gangs film British women without their consent, in states of drunkenness and undress, to advertise their services to North African clients. In 2025, the majority of men crossing the Channel hail from Afghanistan and Eritrea — and commit sex offences at a rate 20 times higher than British men. Advertising our wives, sisters, mothers, and daughters as the spoils of conquest doesn’t sound like vulnerability to me.

It should horrify but not surprise us that the dignity of women and the innocence of children are alien concepts to cultures which rejected the moral revolution of Christianity. Whereas Christ taught that the kingdom of God belongs to children, and St Paul wrote that women and men are given equal moral consideration, Muhammad told his warmongering followers that “slave-girls” and “bond-women” are “war booty also permitted to you” as that which “the right hand possesses”. This belief, that white Kafir girls deserve any sexual abuse visited upon them, has been the justification given by multiple perpetrators part of Pakistani grooming gangs. Morality is ethnocentric, extended only as far as the Ummah. This clannish in-group loyalty (asabiyah) is compounded by high rates of consanguinity in Muslim communities — with 46% of Pakistanis in Bradford married to a blood relative. When Britain imports the Muslim world, it imports the practice of violent, predatory men using women and children as receptacles for their pleasure.

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One of the great functions an MP can perform is to make space for public discourse using Parliamentary privilege.

By making this her first question in Parliament, Pochin created room in the Overton window for members of the public to voice their opposition to how Islam treats women without fear.

We should not accommodate the imported practice of covering a woman head-to-toe, based on the barbaric belief that her bare skin is a cruel temptation for men to sin, and that women therefore bring acts of sexual violence upon themselves by dressing immodestly.

Pochin has done a public service, and should be commended for this.

Also, by forcing Starmer to squirm and avoid answering it, Pochin distinguished between those willing to admit that Islam presents unique moral and cultural challenges, and those who are not.

It is clear that Zia Yusuf is not.

If Yusuf is not willing to defer to the British public on this matter, then he is of no benefit to the movement.

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UPDATE:

Less than an hour after posting this, Zia Yusuf resigned as Reform UK Chairman.

Good riddance.