It would appear that some muslims are turning away from the Bhurka aswell there seems to be a growing movement against the bhurka
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One of those who thinks the burka should be outlawed is the chairman of the Muslim Educational Centre in Oxford.
"We're not telling these women what they can wear. We're telling them the only thing they should do is uncover their faces," said imam Dr Taj Hargey.
"I think this notion that somehow this is a religious symbol, a Koranic requirement, is nonsense."
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and this makes interesting reading
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Now that a French Parliamentary Commission has recommended the banning of face veiling (burqah and niqab) in public, any similar official restriction in the UK will be counterproductive and contrary to Britain’s liberal heritage. What will be more effective is nationwide Muslim-led opposition to this foreign fad and non-Islamic tendency. MECO has taken the lead in this pioneering anti-Burqa and Niqab Initiative (ABNI). It will challenge the proponents of face screening by exposing the theological falsehoods of imported Wahhabi-Salafi ideology that has unfortunately conditioned many British Muslims to blindly accept that face masking is an Islamic obligation, when it is at best an archaic social practice of particularly primitive places.
While the Sublime Qur’an requires men and women to be modestly dressed, there is nothing in Islam’s transcendent text mandating total female face concealment. That ancient Byzantine and Persian custom was absorbed by subsequent Muslim society not on the basis of original divine directives but through later human interpretations. Although these opinions were based on ensuing prophetic reports (hadith) and exclusively masculine edicts, they cannot override the sacred Qur’anic scripture, which emphatically does not necessitate women to tuck away their faces in public.
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the highlighted statement is what i find most interesting ,it seems to be the way forward to me rather than a goverment forced ban