From the first hours of my writing honestly about burqas six months ago, our website swung out into unintended content directions.

In a world where honest talk is in short supply about burqas, Western women and Muslims, too, we launched quite a discussion at Anne of Carversville.

The Lubna Hussein case came a couple weeks later, and I haven’t looked back on what is a complex, multi-layered conversation around burqas.

In the world of fashion, a Persian Gulf woman can look both pious and cool, donning BQ shades, a burqa-branding concept from a London-based design firm Fitch brand in Dubai. via LATimes

The new BG shades attempt to offer the modest covering of niqab — oh where is Pixie when I need her! What we have here is a quasi-face veil, but the mouth is showing, so it’s not really niqab and certainly not burqa, which is a full body covering, as worn in Afghanistan.

The tag line on the BQ website says “it’s cool to be dramatic”. Forgive me, but that doesn’t sound very modest to me. And the debate is mostly about modesty, is it not?

Elan Magaine in London seems not quite so enamored with BG.

The Christian Science Monitor features an in-depth discussion Behind the Veil: Why Islam’s most visible symbol is spreading.

From my perspective, the article is fairly written, and I believe readers will agree. If not, you’ll say so. There’s very little new perspective in the article, but if you’ve not followed the conversations here, then the piece is an excellent overview article.