I see them sometimes at the Chandler Costco. I feel so sorry for them, especially when the males with them wear normal Western clothing.
Once, at the airport, prior to 911, I saw a woman crossing the lobby of the airport at Sky Harbor dressed in a burqa, nothing of her showed. Her husband (I’m supposing) casually bopping along happily next to her He dressed in jeans and a soft plaid shirt, wearing a cowboy styled vest.
I have wondered about that for years, unable to erase that picture from my mind. 911 happened only two weeks later and I wondered, was she a spy? Was she enslaved? Who was that person, where did ‘they’ come from? What was going on there?
I have once seen someone in a full burqa in Costco. Very disturbing, like some monster roaming about through the crowd in that long dark costume covering every part of that person. Really, who knows what is under there?
Are they slaves sent to shop by their masters? Is this the life they choose because they have been raised this way or is there some sort of force involved, threat? It really bothers me when I see them.
It’s not American.