Should the Niqab be banned?

[Muzna]

Re: Should the Niqab be banned?

@Doppleganger

Why can’t her husband purchase it for her from me? Women can even show their body to a doctor, so that is my beef with such laqeer kay faqeer.

I know that you like to be the devil’s advocate, but think of the inconvenience that it caused the manager on a night shift. I think that this intolerant behavior that “islamists” whatever you call them that show it in the west will doom us all muslims when the time comes to shove as **** hits the fan.

I get where you are coming from but tbh, they are the customers and they had the right to ask to be served in a specific way. If it was inconvenient for the female manager to stop what she was doing then she could have declined or she could have said that she would be available at another time. (You mention closing time, this could just as well have happened when there were no female service people on duty; they could be gone for break or lunch etc and the couple would have been out of luck.)

I know that it took a long time for me to be comfortable with purchasing feminine products from a male sales clerk…more so if the guy was desi. Dunno why… maybe I’m a private person when it comes to things like that. In fact, there was a time when my husband was going to pick up some stuff from the drug store and a family member asked me to ask him to pick up something for her. I had such a tough time asking him because after being married for well over a decade, I had never even asked him to do this for me!! (It turned into quite an uncomfortable joke cuz she started making fun of us and we had to shut our mouths and take it cuz she’s older than us.)

So I don’t think it has to do with “Islamists” but more so with your own personal level of comfort. And I certainly don’t think it’s limited to any particular religious or ethnic group.