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‘One of the most popular reasons people reject the burqa, however, is that they believe it’s simply “creepy.” These people seem to consider Muslim women who wear burqas as inhuman, and even compare them to ghosts.’


Even compare them to ghosts! Inhuman. And yet how difficult, even for the most enlightened and sympathetic, to police their burqa/niqab language, to rein in their honest belief about the garments. Take Azadeh Moaveni, eager to understand the Isettes as victims of “repressive and patriarchal governments.” (She means England, dummy.) These women, Moaveni writes, “joined the morality police and became the spectres in the niqab.”

Hey you’re a regular Boris Johnson, comparing pious empowered women to ghosts! Bad, bad, Azadeh Moaveni!

Margaret Soltan, October 6, 2019 9:50AM
Posted in: democracy

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