Last week, in an essay published in Newslaundry, writer Noamankhan Pathan drew upon his mother’s experience as being indirectly or directly forced to adopt the burqa upon her marriage, and the resulting disjunction between her desires and the injunctions placed upon her. He also argued that a prevailing culture of patriarchal imposition of clothing, such as the burqa, is both contrary to the principles of feminism and, more broadly, freedom of choice.
