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**emexiagog** · 09-16-2010, 12:46 AM

Actually full coverage burqas are more popular here in the US with African-American converts than with immigrants from Muslim countries. Immigrants may dress conservatively, wear a scarf but the full coverage is not usually what immigrants here choose. Which is interesting in and of itself, I suppose.

Very few women in France wear burqas but for people who have never been to France it may be surprising how much of an immigrant city Paris and other large cities are. Paris these days is as full of immigrants from around the world as New York is. The burqua law is as much about French people uncomfortable with that as some of the dummer English-only laws here - the ones that say for example the government can't produce non-English brochures to stop the spread infectious diseases in immigrant communities leap immediately to mind.

Interesting. I def. noticed growing up in North Philly, a high number of African-American females who either chose or were "encouraged" to wear the burqa. Now that you mention it, I do notice that non-African-American woman only seem to wear the scarf and a kind of form fitting set. I wonder if some of these females feel less restriction when they come to the US, but they still want to show some aspect of their faith?

09-16-2010, 12:46 AM	#27
emexiagog Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 526 Senior Member	Actually full coverage burqas are more popular here in the US with African-American converts than with immigrants from Muslim countries. Immigrants may dress conservatively, wear a scarf but the full coverage is not usually what immigrants here choose. Which is interesting in and of itself, I suppose. Very few women in France wear burqas but for people who have never been to France it may be surprising how much of an immigrant city Paris and other large cities are. Paris these days is as full of immigrants from around the world as New York is. The burqua law is as much about French people uncomfortable with that as some of the dummer English-only laws here - the ones that say for example the government can't produce non-English brochures to stop the spread infectious diseases in immigrant communities leap immediately to mind. Interesting. I def. noticed growing up in North Philly, a high number of African-American females who either chose or were "encouraged" to wear the burqa. Now that you mention it, I do notice that non-African-American woman only seem to wear the scarf and a kind of form fitting set. I wonder if some of these females feel less restriction when they come to the US, but they still want to show some aspect of their faith?
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