.... The veil debate seems at least partly driven, as do many media-driven debates, by whipped-up hysteria. The public argument, deemed a question of fundamental liberty, is not driven by the issue at hand, but rather by particular ideological forces -- mostly non-Muslim political agitators determined to create the illusion of bigotry even where there is none.
Meanwhile, the real victims are those Muslim women, and schoolgirls, who are coerced into covering their face -- partly because non-Muslim, self-described "progressives" are working so hard to enforce those Muslim women's "rights."
As with other conflicts between Islamist values and a free society, few questions are ever put to British Muslims themselves. Those political activists who claim a veil ban is the product of racism or "Islamophobia," have instead turned to Islamist-controlled community groups to validate their claims. [Gatestone Institute] Read more
