I dislike the wearing of the burqa and the niqab in this country when women in certain middle Eastern countries are being jailed and heavily punished for not wanting to wear them - where is their freedom of dress? Wearing either is also a statement of separateness and an unwillingness to join in with the mainstream culture of this country - not asking them to wear mini-skirts, wear khalwar-chimeeze (many spelling variants of that, but that is the one that was used in Bradford schools) by all means.