Re: Should the Niqab be banned?
I get what you mean. Really I do. But again I would refer to a level of “personal comfort” in the area.
Perhaps that haya/sharam is my shortcoming. I don’t know. What I do know is that both he and I are okay with things being this way and our understanding doesn’t impact anyone else’s life. Perhaps the same applies to the couple that frequented that shop? Who knows?
(Another thing…many couples are okay with going to the bathroom within earshot of their spouse…some are not. Doesn’t make either of them wrong. 
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As for your reference to the bikini…well…certain attire is appropriate for certain places…it’s socially acceptable for some of my colleagues to appear in the tiniest of string bikinis when we are on a company retreat in Los Cabos but they would die before they would show cleavage in the office between 9-5. I don’t see anything wrong with that…
Maybe I’m just old-fashioned.