One of the main issues that I think westerners have with women wearing burkas, is that they feel they are threatening and make them feel uneasy as the true persons physical identity is concealed.

To what extent is this true in the western world?

This has not been helped by the few suicide bombers who concealed themselves under the burka, and used it as a tool to commit acts of terror. I think that this has created a distrust towards the covering, and therefore the women who wear them in the developed world.

If wearing the burka (through a women’s own choice) in the developed world creates a mistrust and difficulty trying to communicate with the rest of society and form relationships, how is this empowering?