08 June 2010

Niqab: Religious right or step backward?

.... Was the Toronto Muslim woman angry, pleased, dismayed by arguments made on her behalf before the Ontario Court of Appeal? We certainly couldn’t tell as she sat listening to lawyers debate a lower court ruling that she must remove her veil when testifying against two relatives charged with sexually abusing her as a child.

Arguing for her right to testify from behind her niqab was her lawyer, David Butt, as well as the Ontario Human Rights Commission, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and, wait for the irony, the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund. [Toronto Sun] Read more [via National Secular Society]