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...bosses. But last week, in his local newspaper, Straw came out against the niqab, the full body and face veil worn by some Muslim women. The niqab, Straw wrote, makes him uneasy and hampers communication. He now asks women - respectfully - to consider taking it off when they come to seek his help. I now find myself in the unusual position of agreeing with Straw's every word. Feminists have denounced Straw's approach as unacceptably proscriptive, and reactionary Muslims say it is Islamaphobic. But it is time to speak out against this objectionable garment and face down the obscurantists...
...Afghan women into the burqa. It is happening again. In Iran, educated women who fail some sort of veil test are being imprisoned by their oppressors. Saudi women under their body sheets long to show themselves and share the world equally with men. Exiles who fled such practices to seek refuge in Europe now find the evil is following them. As a female lawyer from Saudi Arabia once said to me: "The Koran does not ask us to bury ourselves. We must be modest. These fools who are taking niqab will one day suffocate like I did, but they will...
...image,” according to the website. The “Disguide” covers topics as diverse as the history of racism at Harvard, the role that the University has played in the country’s wars, and final clubs. Editors of the guide say they seek to present a history of Harvard that is not commonly presented to freshmen as well as an overview of campus progressives’ current concerns. “One of the bad things about freshman orientation is that it gives you this rosy picture of a happy Harvard family that?...
...TIME: The media often paints the picture of Iran led by a madman racing to get his hands on nuclear weapons. Do you believe that Iran's leaders have actually made a strategic choice to seek a strategic nuclear capability...
...open to interpretation,” Bujalski says. “They really need an audience to meet them halfway, and you have to see your own truth or falsehood or whatever you see in there.”AN ELITE POPULISTBut such an audience has had to seek out Bujalski’s micro-budget films, due to their limited runs at small theaters across the country. “Mutual Appreciation” has had an eight-day run at the Brattle Theatre prior to its migration to Brookline’s Coolidge Theatre, where it will show...