Which muslims wear burqas

A niqab, which is more commonly worn, is a two-piece full length garment which covers most of the face, but leaves the eyes exposed. The veil is a modesty garment. The holy text of Islam, the Koran, advises men and women to dress modestly. For some women, that description has been interpreted as advice to cover the all areas of the body except their face, hands and feet when they are in the presence of a man to whom they are not married.

For some women, wearing the veils is a matter of religious right, and an active decision made by those women. Other followers of the faith may feel that a hijab, a headscarf, is the most appropriate form of dress, and some women may not opt to wear any covering whatsoever.

Denmark, France, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands have said that they will fine anyone seen working the burka in public. Switzerland banned the veil in the region of Tessin, while a town named Novara in Italy has also imposed restrictions. Parts of Catalonia in Spain have fought to ban the face veil after a European Court of Human Rights ruling in said it was not a human rights restriction. In Turkey, a full ban was abandoned in , and now women are barred from wearing the garments if they work in the judiciary, military and police.

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Prior to the national ban in , towns had begun to ban it locally, starting with Pazardzhik, which implemented the ban due to the presence of 12 women who wore the burqa , or 0. In Austria, legislation banning the burqa comes in to force from October There are thought to be up to women who practice the full face cover, making up 0. Studies show that 70 per cent of Muslim women do not cover their hair at all in Germany which has a Muslim population of 5 per cent. Yet despite this, and with no data on burqa wearers, it followed the Netherlands by implementing a partial burqa ban.

In the UK, there are no available numbers on how many women wear the burqa but the figures are likely to correspond to the low, virtually immeasurable European figures. For now, however, there do not appear to be any legislative plans to ban the burqa in Britain. It is highly questionable whether the microscopic figures of women who wear the burqa has warranted the inordinate amount of focus, time and cost that has been put into scrutinising it.

Fears surrounding the burqa are unfounded and based on perceptions of it posing a threat, despite no evidence of this.

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