Realistically speaking (and I know these sorts of stats are difficult to collect), how many women in Switzerland actually wear a burqa? And by that I mean a true burqa, with the total face and eye coverage, not the niqab etc.
As in an Taliban Afghan style burqa? The answer is very probably zero. Estimates that even only around 20-30 women wear a niqab in the country as a whole, most of whom are converts, rather than people who were brought up Muslim.
With that in mind, niqabs are a fairly common sight in the summer in places like Geneva, Lucerne or the alps as they are very popular with tourists from the Gulf countries.
So if the referendum were to succeed, what exactly would be banned? I mean, how is the garb that the referendum is seeking to ban actually specifically defined?
