The Muslim Veil - What do you think??

Many of the women leave their eyes open - the eyes often show a smile etc you don't need to see the face or mouth... How many times as you are walking about with your daily life, shopping, in a supermarket, in a cafe etc do you actually stop and say hello to a complete stranger or actually stop and smile?? Even at a doctors surgery how often do you say anything to a stranger, most I've said is excuse me!! Surely its the same as when a person has loads of peicings - are you intimidated to talk to them? should they have their peicings removed? The same can be said with loads or tattoes over face etc.. I think more than the whole social devide its now a trend to say anti islamic things just to get publicity. I think we have come to a stage now where we should have moved on from the prehistoric attitudes of the past and just accept anyone as long as they are not harming you. Women in Veils won't hurt you, won't intimidate you, won't bat an eye lid at you! They are more likely to give an elderly person a seat on the bus, be polite towards you and open the door for you. I live in a multi cultural society and I have find this to be the case. I have no problems at all with these women who I often meet when picking up my children from school - to be honest they are just like any other parent, sister, wife or mother!

I once asked a close friend of mine why he "made" his wife wear the burka. This is what responce he gave me: First of all he said that his wife wanted to wear the burka and he had no objection to it and supported her, he also added that many muslim women choose to wear the burka rather than get asked to wear it, so it was more a matter of personal choice. The other thing he added was this which I thought was rather sweet: Say for example you have a beautiful diamond, that is yours to keep & cherish... would you put it on show so that people would be envious, or may feel jealous or that they may want it for themselves? I say No, I would probably hide it, put it safe and chrish it. So he said the same way a muslim women is the diamond of a household. And therefore if they choose to cover their beauty they should do!! For many muslim women it is hard due to just wear the scarf in public so surely we should admire them for wearing a whole burka, for themselves and their beliefs. It is only the most pious of the muslim women who wear these burka anyway... You will find some very pious christian women used to do the same a long time ago. Except If i'm right it was more a thin scarf that was used.