12 March 2010

Niqab Gazette cartoon steps up debate

Montreal Gazette editorial cartoonist Aislin has sparked controversy over a provocative cartoon of a woman wearing a Niqab. An editorial cartoon in Friday's Montreal Gazette is highlighting a controversial incident in which a Muslim woman was asked to leave a French language school for refusing to remove her niqab.

The cartoon, by Terry Mosher, who draws under the name Aislin, shows the face of a woman in a niqab. In the space where her eyes would normally be seen, the cartoonist has shown prison bars and a lock. [CBC] Read more [via Islamophobia Watch]