quite a few intelligent English women have chosen to wear the Burka and Niqab, purely because they are fed up with the way they are looked at and harassed. It would prevent a lot of rapes and perversion in India.
If a person has an ugly wife it's probably best to let her wear a Burka.
Most women wear Burkas out of choice, a few on requests of their husbands and fewer out of compulsion. Some men ,just the perverts ,who want to ogle and who wish fantasise are dead against the Burka, and will come up with all sorts of justifications to ban it.
So are you prepared to ban ties (a representation of a cross around the neck) , nuns wearing their head gear, monks and priests from wearing their garb, the Pope from wearing his dress etc etc? Why stop there? Why not ban Jeans because they don't sufficient crutch parts of a woman to satisfy lustful men?
What an ignorant and disrespectful of history statement:-"non Muslim cultures, beliefs and customs do not stand a chance."
If that was the case there would no Hindus in India and no Jews and Christians in Palestine.