The niqab in the witness box
There doesn’t appear to be much new election news yet, and the world goes on regardless. I held this over for a couple of days, but I think it’s still well worth discussing – RM. A court case in Western [...]
Damned if you do…
Over at Overland, Jeff Sparrow takes a look at the ridiculous controversy surrounding Rima Fakih’s victory in the Miss USA contest: For the last few weeks, we’ve learned, over and over again, why the burqa must be banned. A visible [...]
On banning the Burqa
Nicolas Sarkozy wants to ban the Burqa. The French National Assembly looks set to agree. Despite all the blah about ‘Western values’, women in the West also have issues with compulsory sexualised visibility. The claim that this regulation of dress [...]
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