By any reasonable measure, the burqa is a complete anachronism in a society in which women enjoy the privileges of an open, secular, gender equal society. A woman in a burqa cannot reasonably participate in our society.
The burqa is neither a feminist nor anti-feminist symbol, nor a symbol of repression or freedom.
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