Though the sheikh may be right in finding one eye less attractive than two, I am by no means certain that he has thought this through. Had he consulted me I should have saved him from error.

After all, whatever else can be said against it, you know where you are with the traditional burka, not least because it is clear where the occupant's eyes are roving. This new burka threatens a quite different effect. After all, how is one to know — with only a single eye on view — whether you are being given the glad eye? When a lady in a burka blinks — as she must at least a number of times each minute — it is plainly just a blink. However if she blinks in a one-eyed burka what is one to think? Is the blink a blink or is the blink a wink? As the sheikh and his friends sit on the bus on the way to work, it might appear to them that they are surrounded by cyclopean females winking at them without respite. The effects, I predict, will be appalling. Surrounded by the objects of his desire/revulsion, the sheikh will, if he has his way, be blind and insane within the year.