RebYidd, what in the world are you talking about??? The women who wear burqas do so because they believe in it. When one of the magazines (Mishpacha? Binah?) interviewed them, they were talking about why they do it. They took it upon themselves.
Some of them even spoke about how they took it on themselves gradually and they didn’t do it until they felt they were holding on that level. One of them spoke about how there was something that she wasn’t doing yet but she hoped to “reach that level” eventually.
(which btw explains the issues people have with them – it’s the fact that they consider this to be “reaching a certain spiritual level” and something to “strive for”, as WTP basically pointed out).
Of course, it’s theoretically possible that someone is forcing them to do this and threatened to kill them if they didn’t say these things to the interviewers, but there is no evidence of such a thing.
It’s also theoretically possible that someone is holding a gun to your head and forcing you to post in the CR.