Burn the Burqa, and the Beard

Burn the Burqa, and the Beard
by Saif Shahin, New Age Islam
Saif Shahin is a research scholar at the University of Texas at Austin
FOR some time now, the burqa and the beard have been the most telling pronouncements of Muslimness. You spot a woman in a burqa anywhere in the world and you know that she is a Muslim. Beards are not quite as exclusively Muslim just yet, but the luxurious untrimmed ones, particularly when accompanied by a clean upper lip, are close to becoming so. There is nothing essentially Islamic about either of them.
http://www.newageislam.com/islamic-society/saif-shahin,-new-age-islam/burn-the-burqa,-and-the-beard/d/6792