Ban the Burqa - and the Niqab Too article

Submitted by Barbara (United States), Aug 2, 2007 at 19:48

If memory serves, the clothing women wear to conceal all but the eyes and/or the various degrees of concealment common to Muslim women are meant to keep anyone other than the woman's husband from seeing his wife.

If this is correct, then the clothing these women must wear have a marital purpose, not a religious one.

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