Burqa

The issue with the Burqa is not about religious freedom its about cultural context and the meaning it gives to symbols.

Archive 2006-10-15 Newmania 2006

The issue with the Burqa is not about religious freedom its about cultural context and the meaning it gives to symbols.

The burqa is an aggressive symbol Newmania 2006

That doesn’t make the women in Burqa’s any less imprisoned behind their symbols of dogmatic inspired gender oppression.

The Rise Of Feminism And The Fall Of The Family: Part 1 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

That doesn’t make the women in Burqa’s any less imprisoned behind their symbols of dogmatic inspired gender oppression.

2008 January 02 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

According to him one could not distinguish a person clad in a Burqa was a male or a female.

dailyindia.com News Feed 2010

All those countries have their pecularities, traditions and debates and should be considered individually, we need differentiation between attitudes toward Hijab and full-body garments such as Burqa, and we need differentations between bans on public, private or work level.

Global Voices in English » Hijablogging: On Burqas and Bans 2009

Waseem Ahmed also reinvents the miniature with "Burqa," a delicately drawn, late Renaissance-style nude woman holding an apple, her body covered head to toe in a diaphanous burqa.

Surprised, General? 2007

One of these Mullah Terrorists was killed by security forces and the other was caught, while escaping in a 'Burqa'.

Bloggers.Pakistan 2009

Burqa bans will only end up doing this, besides driving the women who wear the burqa only reluctantly, back into their homes, depriving them of any freedom they may have had.

Global Voices in English » In France, Sudan, Burqas and Trousers Cause Controversy 2009

From another perspective, the writer is absolutely correct in suggesting the Burqa is a custom that positions women as second-class citizens.

Has Clinton been sidelined? 2009