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...What Would Be The Consequences if non-Muslim women took similar positions in Muslim countries? Is there a suicide bomber behind the veil or bank robber or a rapist, etc.

Barbara Kay: Ban face covering in all public institutions. Veiling is slavery


Barbara Kay October 13, 2010 – 4:25 pm

In April Belgium became the first western country to ban face cover in public. France, which has for years banned all religious veiling in its schools, followed suit. Last spring, police in Italy appealed to a 1975 law prohibiting public face cover when fining a niqab-clad woman. A conservative backbencher has called for a ban in Britain. A face cover ban in Spain came very close to passage this year.

It would seem that a weightless piece of cloth is turning out to be to mighty multiculturalism what Kryptonite was to Superman. Not just in Europe. Quebec’s Bill 94 seeks to ban face cover in government-funded institutions, including courts. An interesting legal story in Ontario, pivoting around the pernicious imported custom of veiling may, let us hope, spread the trend to the rest of Canada. Read More »







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