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You said earlier that you were picking up on NooBHA's point - he said that nun's wear similar attire (he was referring to a burqa - at no point did he mention a burqini) and I pointed out that they do not. There is no equivalent attire to a burqa widely worn by nuns. So you posted a picture of...

Hmm...from where I'm sitting it looks like someone trying to prove some equivalence between the oppression of Islam and Christianity...yet again.

Sadly, it does feel like that.

Another one missing the point by a country mile. This thread is about burqas. Not about burqinis, not about hijabs. Please point me to the post where someone criticises hijabs.

Yes...and the muslims have hijabs which no-one is complaining about and is comparable with nuns' attire. Repeat - this thread is about the burqa.

I don't think you've thought this through. This is about a burqa. Nuns don't wear anything that covers their entire face like a burqa does. The nearest thing in Islam is a hijab and I don't recall anyone calling for a hijab ban.

I probably pronounce it the same as you do - with an 's' sound. That's what I mean about 'c' not being phonetic.

He's claiming he's not Nibble*. *We all know it is though but I guess it does no harm to go along with the charade.

If it were phonetic then it would be s-zar. Surely?

I don't think the letter c is phonetic and it's silent in the word czar.

Ignoring that snide last comment, I'll refer you to that Jack Straw article. Given that he was the Blackburn MP he no doubt found himself in countless situations where women in burqas were there and he still found it impossible to communicate with these women. If he says he always had a problem...

Yup. How good is this picture? 741194232497643520

Don't know if it's already been mentioned but the burqa has been banned before in certain situations in this country. Jack Straw would insist that if meeting women wearing a full veil that they would have to take it off before he would discuss anything with them and without exception they all...

Apropos of nothing, 'Burqa' is an Arabic word but when spelt using the Latin alphabet we usually use a 'q'. Who decided that? You'd think that when we spell words from other languages that don't use the Latin alphabet that we'd make it phonetic - that just sort of makes sense to me but no, we...