.... This week, it was Birmingham Metropolitan College which found itself under attack, from a black students’ campaign group, for requesting students do not cover their faces.
The intention of this eight-year-old policy, which also applied to hooded tops and baseball caps, was to make attendees ‘easily identifiable’.
.... Nick Clegg, however, with pathetic predictability, said the ban made him feel ‘uneasy’.
Regrettably, the college yesterday caved in.
On Monday comes an even more important test, when a judge in London is due to decide whether a Muslim woman accused of intimidation can stand trial with her face covered. Her barrister says that, in ‘tolerant’ Britain, it is her human right to do so.
But, as Mr Straw remarked in 2006, ‘seeing what someone means is better than just hearing what they say’. [Daily Mail] Read more
