[Margaret Pilkington]

The muslim women who choose to wear a veil that covers everything but their eyes have isolated themselves from society......there can be very little communication with them....you cannot tell anything about them because their face is covered......you cannot tell if they are smiling or not. If you meet someone in the street, you smile at them......even people you do not know. If you bump into someone you apologise and smile to let them know you are not an enemy. The women who wear a burqa cannot do that.....in fact they almost become socially invisible...non-people. I don't think you need to cover yourself from head to foot to proclaim your devoutly religious faith.......I would assume that anyone wearing vaguely muslim clothes to be devout, unless I saw actions that procalimed otherwise.
I am dismayed that every instance of media publicity is pounced on by the muslim community as an affront to them. I am not allowed to be affronted by the women who dress in this manner, who, if I am honest I find intimidating.