MIKE Madigan's letter (LT, August 28) represented the thoughts and worries of an ever-growing number of the Christian citizens of Blackburn and I suspect quite a number of people of the Islamic faiths.
The increasing number of Asian women who are being segregated from the rest of us by wearing the burqa is seen "rightly or wrongly" as offensive to people like myself, as the wearing of scanty western clothes would be to Muslims, if worn in Pakistan.
Surely, the aims of people of all faiths should be to integrate and live in harmony with the citizens of their adopted countries rather than adopting dress and customs that do the opposite and antagonise the indigenous population.
Could it be that the Muslims who want to perpetuate Sharia customs and dress and their extremist way of life in this country because many women in Pakistan are rejecting it?
NORAH APPLEBY, Address supplied.
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