Spain joins many other European nations. Catalonia got there ahead of everyone else.
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Update: A past president of the Canadian Muslim Congress weighs in on a legal case there.
… Why is the law even considering accommodating a symbol of women’s subservience?
… For groups who fear forced sequestration of women as a result of state legislation, suffice it to say they are assuming the worst. Their conclusion is based on the flawed assumption that niqabi women will invariably refuse adherence to the legislation. Even the woman known as N.S. has agreed to testify without her veil if she loses [her legal effort to testify while wearing it]. She must be encouraged to overcome her discomfort in facing her alleged attackers. She cannot live her entire life hiding behind her niqab…
… A society that permits the marginalization of women is indeed a dysfunctional society. The proliferation of the niqab, and all it stands for, spell serious repercussions for Canadian society and its values built on gender equality.
Canada’s courts must set precedents discouraging this trend rather than accommodating it to satisfy the most retrogressive segments of Canadian Muslim society.