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"burka" is a loose, full-body garment worn by some Muslim women to cover themselves from head to toe. It is typically made of a thick fabric and has a mesh screen over the face to conceal it. The
burka is a conservative form of dressing, often worn for religious or cultural reasons.
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If a country wants to
ban burkas outright, they can of course do that.
Otherwise you would not see sexual harassment
of burka - clad women in the streets of Egypt.
This week, Britain's UK Independence Party recently published a proposal to outlaw full - face veils such
as burkas.
Can we culturally reject forms of extreme dress
like burka's, Hassidic ensemble's or turbans without impinging on religious freedoms?
Now the actual way to do it, because you can't just say «Muslims can't
ware burkas» is to focus on the differences.
The Cossacks, for example wear clothes
called burkas and papahas, which are the fur hats that are so synonymous with the Cossack people.
Abbas Khowsari @ Wapping Project Bankside This photographer shows a different side to Iran with the rather surreal looking
burka clad police force abseiling down a wall and great shots capturing colourful neighbourhoods.
Same with those silly burlap
hooded burkas, full body coverings, etc..
How sad that in churches today, men still have women imprisoned, even though the
black burka is invisible and can not be seen with the naked eye, women are nevertheless still imprisoned.
welll I do nt like seeing a car full of people wearing all that muslim gear... or in full scarf and robes or
burka buying groceries or at the bank or on a plane... guess why.
Wearing a full
veil burka as a doctor is probably not the best idea, neither is having a turban when you are a parachute instructor.
Everyone should have the right to wear a cross or a scarf (NOT
burka for security reasons) but nobody can impose any particular religious symbols in public spaces such as school or courts.
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Throughout Europe, in recent years, the issue of the
muslim burka and its potential ban has often been discussed.
I attended the majority of shows so I spotted the shiny sequinned men underwear, jersey tight sort - of - dress for men, christmas tree's
ornaments burka and the plastic shower carpet skirt.
One might expect Charles Saatchi to show just the sorts of things that are presented: a stuffed camel in a suitcase, a taxidermied dog morphing with a furry vacuum cleaner, photographs of veiled women
whose burkas turn out to be pixelated with tiny porn shots, yet more of Subodh Gupta's over-familiar sculptures made from cooking utensils, a black medical cot piled high with tarry mattresses that breathe wheezily to the power of compressed air.
Since many countries wish to at least pretend that they are in favor of such rights, they are going to have to apply loopholes, such as «
burka = security threat».
The Tories were furious over a decision by Elections Canada to allow Muslim women to vote with their faces covered
by burkas or niqabs during three Quebec byelections in September.
While there may be a technical argument all women should
don burkas (sp?)
Just because Muslim women
wear burkas doesn't make banning them a religious, cultural, or sexist issue.
What a lot of people on this board are saying is that the rule is just plain ridiculous, akin to
burkas in orthodox muslims (or wigs on orthodox Jewish women, beards on orthodox muslims and orthodox jews alike).
She has lined a gallery corridor on the ground floor with bright strips of wallpaper, which serve as background for a group of mysterious figures, really mannequins, with brilliantly colored and patterned textiles of her invention thrown over them
like burkas.
This week's top 5 includes giant steel sculptures, photography,
burka clad police officers, crystalline faces and a group show.
Three years later his business has 30 female employees, including 18 who work on an all - female bottling line, many in
burkas.
Sikhs don't wear
burkas, you empty headed doofus.
Sikhs don't wear
burka, only Muslims do.
Women can't be priests, women can't use contraception, women have to wear
burka's, women can't go to school, women can't be rabbi's, women obey your husband's every command.
In the article it felt like the only solution would be for Christians to start wearing
burkas.
Bad news for your granddaughters who will wear
burkas, have no rights and get beaten with a stick for even minor offenses.
Putting on
a burka wouldn't turn me into a practicing Muslim any more than putting on a badge would make me a police officer.
All Muslim women do not wear hijabs or
burkas or even cover their hair.
And it's natural for someone from South Asia to draw a comparison to Islam, since there is a comparatively small Christian or Buddhist population... Orthodox Christian women also cover their hair and dress in loose, modest clothing, as do Orthodox Jews — but none of them have sects or countries, to my knowledge, that require
a burka, for example.
Muslums everywhere wearing
their Burkas.
Niqab /
burka: Both of these are not mandatory in Islam.
Have you suggested to anyone that Mosques should stop segregating the men from the women or that Muslim women shouldn't be treated as chattel or forced to wear
burkas?
The law was proposed following December's Berlin terror attack and amid fears that wearing
a burka and other face - covering items in courts, public schools, and elsewhere compromised the neutrality of public servants.
do you think the woman in
the burka who was having her picture taken with micky and minnie mouse while she was smiling ear to ear was a person who hated America?