Word: veils
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...domestic laws that curtail civil liberties. In his north of England constituency, which[an error occurred while processing this directive] has a sizable Muslim population, he panders to local Muslim 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...
...submit to the hijab or to an opaque, black shroud. On Sept. 10, 2001, I wrote a column in the Independent newspaper condemning the Taliban for using violence to force 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...
...cost only a fraction (about $200) more than vaginal deliveries, their popularity extends throughout middle-class Iran. I've eavesdropped extensively in the waiting rooms of five separate obstetricians and can report that traditional, chador-clad women are just as likely to choose C-sections as their Westernized, pink-veil-wearing counterparts. Alarmed by the rising rate, the government has started radio and television campaigns informing women of the risks Caesareans carry for both infant and mother...
...date with everything else) or audition. It took me four tries before I found my present doctor, a brilliant, European-trained woman who has never once promoted a C-section, and doesn't laugh at me when I ask questions like, "Will I need to wear a veil during labor?" (The answer is no, by the way, but that's because men, including one's husband, are banned from delivery rooms...
...halted in its tracks because the people got in its way, and because it got in theirs. Knowing something is not the same as watching it happen. For decades critics of communism have been saying that the party has no legitimacy; that its claims of representation are a tattered veil for its true function of repression; that for all their apparent obedience, passivity and discipline, many or even most of the populace are not just unhappy but deeply angry and increasingly overt in their defiance. Still, the seven-week-long student protest in Tiananmen Square hit with the impact...