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- noun Alternative form of
burka .
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Examples
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They were banned from public view, commanded to wear a garment known as a burqua, which covers a woman from head to toe, revealing not even her eyes.
Archives de la Stan 2005
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Fortuneatly for you, there are those willing to die, to torture to do what is needed to keep you from being forced to wear a burqua, to allow us to disagree and express those disagreements freely in forums such as this.
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Go back to fawning over the 60's and the weathermen ..... the only way to keeps women from the burqua and taliban sharia rule is to eliminate them.
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The veil and burqua are signs of submission and male superiority.
Islam? Yes. Gay? Yes. British? No, Oh, OK then. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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The same hypocrisy is at work re their deafening silence on oppression of women, the burqua, honour killings and genital mutilations in the Islamic world while crying over corporate glass ceilings and the like.
Save Kiana Firouz Hal Duncan 2010
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Fortuneatly for you, there are those willing to die, to torture to do what is needed to keep you from being forced to wear a burqua, to allow us to disagree and express those disagreements freely in forums such as this.
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We may reason that banning the burqua is intolerant.
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Just a note though, a Islamic headdress does not necessarily mean a burqua.
"Pray To Allah"? This Can’t Be For Real « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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Blairs Poo-faced Babes and Boobies would do us a real favour if they donned the burqua, and a potential side benefit of full body scanners is that they wouldn't need to take them off in public places.
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The morning we met, he saw a woman in a burqua in his son's playground.
Johann Hari: Hanif Kureshi On The Couch: An Exclusive Interview With the Novelist and Screenwriter 2009
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