Burka is a piece of dress from Arabia. Quran says to cover modestly but nowhere does it menion burka.
Face veil is not new to the world:
Pre-Islamic Use of the Face Veil
It is sometimes alleged that the face-veil was originally part of women's dress among certain classes in the
Byzantine Empire and was adopted into Muslim culture during the Arab conquest of the Middle East
. However, although Byzantine art before Islam
commonly depicts women with veiled heads or covered hair, it does not depict women with veiled faces. In addition, the Greek geographer
Strabo, writing in the
first century AD, refers to some
Persian women veiling their faces; and the early third-century Christian writer
Tertullian clearly refers in his treatise
The Veiling of Virgins to some
pagan women of "Arabia" wearing a veil that covers not only their head but also the entire face. Clement of Alexandria commends the contemporary use of face coverings. There are also two Biblical references to the employment of covering face veils in Genesis 38.14 and Genesis 24.65, by Tamar and by Rebekah, Jacob and Abraham's daughters-in-law respectively.
These primary sources show that some women in Egypt, Arabia, Canaan and Persia veiled their faces long before Islam. In the case of Tamar, the Biblical text,'When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face' indicates customary, if not sacral, use of the face veil to accentuate rather than disguise her sexuality.
Chooses are limited by practical necessities
choices...
Well if there is a howling pack of wolves outside your house, are you going to walk around with a freshly slaughtered deer?
