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“Modesty and decency dwell in the mind, not in a burka.”

— Nadeem Aslam

Electorally, the number of women who want to wear a burka is insignificant, yet it is important to defend such a minority against the…

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

“Tell me how they will no longer have to hide beneath burkas. How you will wrap them in lace ‘til they are all as…

— Andrea Gibson

I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.

— Richard Dawkins

I detest the niqab and the burka for their erasure of women and for dangerously equating piety with that disappearance - the less of…

— Mona Eltahawy

“The Muslim veil, the different sorts of masks and beaks and "burkas", are all gradations of mental slavery. (...) The veil deliberately marks women…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“Marley, let’s get one thing straight. I've seen you in a short skirt. I've seen your bare legs and have imagined them wrapped around…

— M.K. Schiller

For the jihadists, Muslim women who embrace Western mores, and wear tight jeans or mini skirts, are hated symbols of corruption that need to…

— Mustafa Akyol

“When, as happened recently in France, an attempt is made to coerce women out of the burqa rather than creating a situation in which…

— Arundhati Roy

“Islam is not like other religions. It’s more inherently prescriptive and it’s much more political. That’s why I, a free speech fundamentalist, still support…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

Indeed, the Muslims have all the social evils of the Hindus and something more. That something more is the compulsory system of purdah for…

— B. R. Ambedkar

The situation of women living in Islam-stricken societies and under Islamic laws is the outrage of the 21st century. Burqa-clad and veiled women and…

— Maryam Namazie