The niqab issue seems to have become a defining one, symbolic of Europe’s growing apprehension about the new ‘other’, namely Muslims. It is part of the new Muslim identity that some Muslim women in Europe are asserting in opposition t...
Wed 03 Feb 2010 by Gaffar Hussain | Read more »
A woman walks into an airport, she is clothed from head to foot, and her face is not visible due to her facial covering. What happens next? It entirely depends. If the woman in question is wearing bike leathers and a helmet then, as normal, somebody ...
Wed 03 Feb 2010 by Nigel Farage | Read more »
Reading the opinions of Nigel Farage MEP and Gaffur Hussain in this edition of the Journal, it would appear that the dominant reasoning behind proposals to ban the veil worn by Muslim women—either the niqab in its purely facial manifestation, or ...
Wed 03 Feb 2010 | Read more »
