The whole question of women wearing the Burqa, abbaya or the niquab has concerned me and yet I couldn't put my finger on exactly why. But when I read this article by a Muslim woman, it became clearer. One of her lines is , "It's a sign, I think not, of being assertive Islam, but of what happens when Islamists are tolerated by a western culture that's absurdly anxious to avoid offence."
written by Qanta Ahmed
www.spectator.co.uk/2017/03

There are reasons for everything, in my opinion.