The word "burqa" is correct in written English.
It is used to refer to a full-body covering worn by some Muslim women in public. Example: "She chose to wear a burqa as a sign of her cultural and religious identity." Alternatives include "niqab" or "chador."
Few women wore the hijab, let alone the burqa or niqab.
She has 11 children, she wears a burqa and she boxes in the gym to keep fit.
A campaign to ban the burqa at parliament had been led by Liberal senator Cory Bernardi, who has been calling for a public ban on the garment for years.
The law, Mr Valls said this week, "must be enforced everywhere", arguing that it is "in the interests of women" to protect them from those who try to impose other values.Although outsiders may see the burqa ban as a constraint on freedom of expression, France's belief in laïcité, a tough form of secularism born of its historical fight against authoritarian clericalism, enjoys cross-party support.
Many French Muslim women approved of the burqa ban, on the grounds that the covering has no tradition in the northern African countries with historic ties to France, and had become a political statement, if not a tool, of those trying to impose hardline Islam.In reality, very few women are thought to wear the burqa in France.
Police identity checks on women wearing the face-covering veil there have passed off without incident.Manuel Valls, the tough-talking Socialist interior minister, was quick to defend France's secular law against face-covering, commonly referred to as the burqa ban, which was introduced by the previous, centre-right government in 2010.
Some of the ideas he expressed in the past have drawn wider support, notably his ban on the all-over face-covering burqa in the streets.
After hearing this sermon, Mr Aziz's followers, allegedly more than 10,000 bearded males and burqa-clad females, set fire in the street to a pyre of music videos and CDs extracted from local traders.
"IF MY son would kill Mr Bush," says the burqa-wearing head of an all-female Islamist organisation, "it would be a great honour for Asiya Andrabi".
Instead it simply issues videos of burqa-clad women in the caliphate, headless infidels and its demolition of Shia shrines.
Interest in Afghanistan remains strong, as two behind-the-burqa books attest.
