Veiled confusion

I don’t particularly have an opinion on the Burqa/Burkha/Burka/Burqha, any more than I do on hot pants. Let’s for sanity’s sake call it the veil (not to be confused with the hijab, which is the headscarf, but which actually means the religious obligation to dress modestly, with the headscarf being only a part of that; you could very well like wearing a headscarf and nothing else, but that doesn’t make it a ‘hijab’- confusing, I know).

People who wear the veil seem to pass by me unnoticed. I very rarely have to meet and deal with one of these veiled women, and when I do, the thing that worries me the most is the embarrassment I’d feel if I ended up talking to the back of her heads. I hear some of them are forced to wear it by their husbands. It’s terrible that, and I can see how a ban can be the only solution, with the state stepping in like a protective father, jealously guarding his daughter from her controlling husband. And I can see how the protective father would want to punish his child for not listening to him by, like, throwing her in jail, and stuff.

The only thing that worries me is the implications the ban will have for traditional white weddings. Will French women still be able to wear the white guaze veil? How about the black one for funerals? I suppose you could limit the wearing of veils to church to solve this problem, but what about on the way to church? Would it not be possible to have an application form for whenever you wanted to wear a veil to ensure that you’re not being forced to, presuming you won’t be forced to lie on the application form? This is all so confusing.

It seems there’s only one solution. We only ban things called a burqa and we make sure every burka manufactured is given the product name ‘burkha’. The only thing the parliamentary committee has to decide on is the spelling.

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