Phyllis Chesler

The burqa is the face of jihad; the disappearance of a woman’s face is a public statement of normalized Islamic gender apartheid. It is not a religious requirement. It is not the best way to take a stand against Western racism. Nevertheless, the West is torn, guilty, confused, enraged about the subject of the burqa. Recently, in a British report, Alveena Malik, an advisor to the former Labour government, suggested that “we in Britain need to take a different direction…and to accept the veil as a part of the modern British way of life.” http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/10/18/the-burqa%E2%80%94modern-views-in-the-arab-world-islamist-views-in-europe/