Telegraph and Mobiles blocked communication for centuries until banned by the Cultured Ones . After the Burkan Wills were drafted by P Hanson , mobs of blackened Muslimettes gathered at Canberra to burn their phones , letters, books, confession booths , shock jocks and on line opinions.

regressives (secular) ideology and Islam are both death cults hence sisters. Secularist murder the unborn while Islamist murder the ' infidel'. The glue that causes them to stick is their Christophobic natures. That explains why feminist/socialist defend the most oppressive religion for women ever.

Without reformation, Islam is a cult.

The discriminatory clothing for girls and women is designed to promote separateness and alienation. Also to 'prove' that the outside world is 'judgemental' and even 'dangerous' - through the free speech that may criticise such dress and behaviour, for example.

Why do feminists prefer Islam? Because feminists are authoritarians too.

'Why won't women's advocates support banning the burka?'

Feminism or any form of women's advocacy is a not one giant amorphous mass of singular thought.

Many feminists - particularly of the liberal mainstream left, e.g. hip, glamour feminist sites like Jezebel and feminist-friendly media outlets like The Guardian - favour the 'woman's choice' or 'religious freedom' view of the burka/niqab. More radical feminist sites like Feminist Current, the Gender Critical forum on Redditt and the feminist sub-forums on Mumsnet mostly reject these lib-fem arguments as internalised misogyny.

I do agree with the author though that the Left seems to be much more opposed to banning the burka/niqab. Increasingly, the Left seem to always be the first to welcome all forms of misogyny with open arms these days - porn/prostitution/BDSM/existentialist transgenderism or now, it seems, religious misogyny. Very sad, considering modern feminism mostly arose out of the Left.

Green is a terrible colour for men , we live in Australia not tribal drunken Ireland and Hotels should be shut down if they let decent hard-working punters drink Guinness.

While my view is, the burqa is an imposed medieval symbol of subjugation!

I won't tell people what they should or shouldn't wear, be they naturists on a nude beach? And couldn't we use a burqa and the occasional sack or two there? Or in the medieval slave markets of old Constantinople.

Men in dresses and makeup, bearded women, women wearing body hugging clothing so revealing as to leave little to the imagination and smiling at me! It's their call!

However, if we really disapproved, then all our ladies remain free to, wear chains or don a habit and cowl, replete with religious symbols, beads, crucifixes, as they push prams down the streets and supermarkets. Where these ladies push the symbol of medieval slave ownership/servitude in your face, given it is, nor was it universial dress in Islamic circles!

[Maybe if one or two took them off, we'd say nay, please put them back on, and be grateful when they did?]

And just like ritualistic stone age genital mutilation, limited in scope, region and preexisting culture!

Mocking that dress code, by choosing to wear clothing attached to other in your face, medieval religious absolutism might work, where disapproval makes them think this symbol of servitude is a free choice. Rather than imposed a few centuries ago in Saudi Arabia by, extremely Autocratic Wannabe Imams!

Even today, women going out alone or driving a car, is very rare there! When these ladies are forced to see themselves through other eyes, their pedantic absolutism might be moderated? Just don't hold your breath!
Alan B.