In March, earlier this year, 32 year old Shaima Aladwadi was brutally attacked where she lived in El Cajon, California, a note was left by her body stating, ‘Go back to your country, you terrorist’ when she was found by her eldest daughter. Is the banning of the burqa in some western countries a manifestation of ‘islamaphobia’? 

I think that it’s really easy for us in the western world to jump to conclusions when it comes to religion, simply because most of us (myself included) can’t relate to the relationship with religion that much of the developing world feels. This story highlights the misunderstanding of Islam itself, especially in relationship to terror and extremist views, can this be extended to the misunderstanding of the wearing of burqas and niqabs?