I just cannot see forcing a woman to reveal a part of her body she is not comfortable revealing as

[underahedgerow]

47. Bottom line is that this woman is perfectly free to practice her religious beliefs in her home.

that is, if the males in her family let her. No one is forcing her to go to a public beach.

The origins of covering the hair and wearing long dresses and robes aren't even religious in nature. Nowhere in Islamic law is the complete hiding of the face and body required. Beyond a few admonitions to 'modesty', there are in fact very few specific recommendations either in the Qu’ran or any other Islamic scriptures about how a woman should dress.

The quran says that women are just 'half as intelligent as men', it requires two women in any case to testify in any litigation to be equal to that of one man, in a rape four male witnesses are required as witness to the event of rape to confirm the crime or else the woman in question is branded as an adulterer or of loose morals, to be stoned to death(in case of married woman) or given 200 lashes with a whip in public in other cases. What can be more barbaric than this? Burka, naqab, hijab are all symbols of humiliation of womanhood, nothing else. The Hijab is a tradition and it has nothing to do with Islam.

Mostly, it has no place in modern societies.