Grupo muçulmano pediu ao governo do Canadá que ilegalize a burqa

Afirmando que vestimentas como ao niqab e a burqa são «medievais» e «misóginas», o Muslim Canadian Congress foi claro: «The tradition of Muslim women covering their faces in public is a tradition rooted more in Middle Eastern culture than in the Islamic faith, Ms. Hassan added.
There is nothing in any of the primary Islamic religious texts, including the Koran, that requires women to cover their faces, she said — not even in the ultra-conservative tenets of Sharia law.
Considering the fact that women are in fact forbidden from wearing burkas in the grand mosque in Mecca, Islam's holiest site, it hardly makes sense that the practice should be permitted in Canada, she said.»
E muitos outros, incluindo o Grande Imã da mesquita Al-Azhar, no Egipto, já têm lutado contra a falsificação da origem religiosa deste hábito.