What effect does wearing a burqa have on a community?
In the ‘Free West’ the burqa is generally deemed to be anti-social. We understand that facial expressions are key signal as regards friendliness or hostility, anger or happiness. Hiding/disguising the face is what bank robbers and highwaymen do in order to avoid identification and/or arrest – so it’s hardly surprising the burqa is viewed by many if not most with suspicion. What rankles, of course, is that it’s we who are expected to accept (adapt to) this practice, under our freedom of religion laws – when it isn’t actually a general Muslim requirement and generally viewed as sign of male insecurity. There’s more than enough in the Qur’an to make it clear women are regarded as male ‘property’ subject to male diktats, most commonly an exposing ingrained possessive insecurity and fear of other male’s wickedness. (Of course, the Bible originated the idea of women’s secondary and subservient role – which our more enlightened laws nowadays make illegal.) Accepted, many Muslim women claim th
