BBC: A month after ex-foreign secretary Jack Straw suggested that Muslim women who wear veils over their face can make community relations harder, what do people within the Muslim community in the UK think of his remarks?Mark Alexander
Jack Straw's comments on veils have been good news for the owner of The Hijab Centre in the MP's constituency of Blackburn.
Nadeem Siddiqui tells me he is selling more veils than he did before his local MP made his controversial remarks. How veil remarks reinforced its support
Sunday, November 05, 2006
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Yes, Pastorius, one could swear we were talking about the diaphanous veils elegant women sometimes wear in the West, for example to funerals. Not those awful 'hoods' they wear in Islam! As you rightly say: "chains of modern female slavery"!
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