[Avodah] Why Jewish Women should NOT wear a Burka

[Moshe Y. Gluck]

R'n CL:
> But, why is this chumra any worse than all the other chumros out there
> in our chumradik society?  Many of the other chumros people indulge in,
> particularly, as I have frequently pointed out on this list, in
> kashrus,
> also severely impact shalom bayis and relations ben adam l'chavero.  In
> fact, I really can't see why these women taking upon themselves a
> personal chumra to wear a burka is any worse than the chumros vis a vis
> tznius imposed by your common garden Beis Ya'akov - at least the women
> are themselves deciding their own level and doing it out of a genuine
> yiras shamayim, and not having chumra imposed upon them.

Can't one argue - based on the media coverage - that this Chumrah has in it
an intrinsic Chillul Hashem aspect?

KT,
MYG